 Cicero was a leading figure of the optimates and as such he was opposed to the bill.Cicero exaggerated the power which the land commission would be given by the bill.He described the commission as "... ten Kings of the treasury, of the revenues, of all provinces, of the whole Republic, of the kingdoms allied with us, the free nations confederate with us - in fact, ten Lords of the world are to be set up under the pretence and name of an agrarian law."