Given that Squrius Maelius was accused for wanting to set himself up for kingship, and Dictator-for-life effectively is the same, he would likely archive little more than either being assassinated, or accused for wanting to set himself up for kingship and taken down that way, likely defamed as having had a stroke of some kind as its very much against everything he stod for. That said, it would likely be used as a attempted levage for the Plebians to become the stronger party, earlier