When the Senate found Gaius’ body, they cut off his head and a man named Septimuleius (say that three times fast) impaled it on a spear and carried it back to Rome. He was rewarded with the head’s weight in gold. To be fair to the Senate, Gaius did rather ask for it by trying to mess with the Senate with a rag-tag army of pals and knives, but it was another violent blow to the Republic and another blood-soaked disaster that put an end to the idea of democratically reforming the government of the Roman Empire pretty much forever.
