access to the consulship considered such a landmark for the political promotion of the plebeians? Why was there such resistance to this? The sources seem to see the law as a breakthrough not just because it provided access to the consulship, but it required that one of the two consuls of the year be a patrician. However, for a twelve-year period after passage of the law, from 355 to 343 BC, both consuls were patricians and the consulship became an unbroken line of shared office only after that. Biographical facts Basic data Full Name: Lucius Sextius Sextus (filius) N. (nepos) Sextinus Lateranus Offices held Tribune of the plebs 375 BC – 367 BC Consul 366 BC (co-consul to Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus) Notable actions Responsible, with Gaius Licinius, for the Lex Licinia Sextia in 367 BC Became first of the new yearly required plebeian consuls in 366 BC Quotes References See also Sextia gens Lex Licinia-Sextia 4th-century BC Roman consuls Lateranus, Lucius Tribunes of the plebs Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown