Numidicus’ son, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, helps achieve his father’s return to Rome in about 98, earning for himself the surname Pius (which means filial devotion).

Eventually even Marius had become alienated to the legislative methods employed by Saturninus and Glaucia.

As a result Saturninus’s laws are repealed, and the Lex Caecilia Didia is introduced as an attempt to reduce hasty legislation passed in the comitia.

Put into effect by the consuls Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos and Titus Didius in the year 98 BCE, this law has two provisions.

The first is a minimum period between proposing a Roman law and voting on it, and the second is a ban of miscellaneous provisions in a single Roman law—what might, in modern terms, be called omnibus bills.

The goal is to curb the passage of radical bills, with the assumption that the period of trinundium will give the citizens time to understand the proposed law or to be persuaded to vote against it.