He might be a plebeian; Marcius Rutilus, and Publius Philo were dictators.

That magistracy was created for very different objects: to organize fetes for saints' days; to drive a sacred nail into the wall of the Temple of Jupiter; on one occasion to appoint the Senate.
Republican Rome had eighty-eight dictators.

This intermittent institution continued for one hundred and fifty-three years, from the year of Rome 552, to the year 711.

It began with Servilius Geminus, and reached Caesar, passing over Sylla.

It expired with Caesar.