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Updated: June 3, 2025

Under the former head the most important innovation was the practical abolition of the dictatorship. The crisis occasioned by Quintus Fabius and his popular opponents in 537 gave the death-blow to this all-along unpopular institution.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

Under the former head the most important innovation was the practical abolition of the dictatorship. The crisis occasioned by Quintus Fabius and his popular opponents in 537 gave the death-blow to this all-along unpopular institution.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)