The Captaincy of the people was conferred upon him.[2] The Councils were suffocated and reduced to silence.

The aristocracy was persecuted for the profit of the plebs.

Under his rule commerce flourished; the towns were adorned with splendid edifices; foreign wars were carried on for the aggrandizement of the State without regard to factious rancors.

Thus the tyrant marked the first emergence of personality supreme within the State, resuming its old forces in an autocratic will, superseding and at the same time consciously controlling the mute, collective, blindly working impulses of previous revolutions.

His advent was welcomed as a blessing by the recently developed people of the cities he reduced to peace.