 The former consuls were tried and fined for their misappropriation.This occurrence appears to have led to the passage of the "lex Aternia Tarpeia", regulating the payment of fines, and fixing the maximum fine which magistrates could impose.Aternius and Tarpeius also maintained the opposition of the Senate and the patricians to a law passed two years earlier by the tribunes of the plebs, opening the Aventine Hill to settlement.