By displaying the corpses of the war dead from the battle of Tolenus in Rome, he had forced the Roman people to confront the grim reality of what their obstinacy was costing the city. There was little senatorial or popular resistance to Caesar’s final act as consul, which was to pass the Lex Julia, a law that gave Roman citizenship to any Italian with the Latin Right, and made eligible for the citizenship any other Italians who were not currently killing Romans to get it. In short the Roman senate and people conceded the very point on which the rebellion was based.
