Peace being established, the tribunes then pressed on the patricians to fulfil the promise of Publius Valerius; they pressed on Claudius, to free the shade of his colleague from breach of faith, and to allow the business of the law to proceed.

The consul asserted that he would suffer the discussion on the law to go on, till he had a colleague appointed in the room of the deceased.

These disputes held on until the elections for substituting a consul.

In the month of December,[125] by the most zealous exertions of the patricians, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, Caeso's father, is elected consul to enter on his office without delay.

The commons were dismayed at their being about to have as consul a man incensed against them, powerful by the support of the patricians, by his own merit, and by three sons, not one of whom yielded to Caeso in greatness of spirit; "whilst they were superior to him by their exercising prudence and moderation, when the occasion required." When he entered on his office, in his frequent harangues from the tribunal, he was not more vehement in restraining the commons than in reproving the senate, "by the listlessness of which body the tribunes of the commons, now become perpetual, by means of their tongues and prosecutions exercised regal authority, not as in a republic of the Roman people, but as if in an ill-regulated family.