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1058 METELLUS. METELLUS.
111. 61; Zonar. ix. 28; Paus. vii. 13, 15; App. Andriscus in Macedonia by his father [No. -]..
Iiisp. 76; Val. Max. ii. 7. ~ 10, iii. 2.-~ 21, v. 1. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 151.)
~ 5, vii. 1. ~ 1, vii. 5. ~ 4, ix. 3. ~ 7; Frontin. 10. C. CAECILIUS Q. F.Q. N. METELLUS CA-.
Strat. iii. 7, iv. 1. ~ 23; the passages of Cicero in PRARIUS, younger brother of the three preceding,,
Orelli's Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 102; Meyer, Orator. and son of No. 5. The origin of his surname is
Roman. Fragm. p. 159, 2d. ed.) quite uncertain. He served under Scipio at the
6. L. CAECILIUS Q. F. L. N. METELLUS CAL- siege of Numantia, B. c. 133, and the abuse which
vus, brother of No. 5, was- consul B. C. 142 with he received from Scipio, according to the tale reQ. Fabius Maximus Servilianus. All that is re- lated by Cicero (de Orat. ii. 66), may have been
corded of this Metellus is that he' bore testimony, owing to the enmity between his father [see above,
along with his brother Macedonicus, against Q. p. 1057, b.] and Scipio, rather than to any demerits
Pompeius, the consul of B. C. 141, when he was of his own. He was consul B. C. 113 with Cn. Papiaccused of extortion. (Oros. v. 4; Obsequ. 81; rius Carbo, and went to Macedonia to carry on war
Cic. ad' Att. xii. 5. ~ 3, pro Font. 7; Val. Max. with the Thracians, whom he quickly subdued.
viii. 5. d 1.) He obtained a triumph in consequence in the same
7. Q. CAEcILIUS Q. F. Q. N. METELLUS BA- year and on the same day with his brother Marcus.
LEARICUS, eldest son of No. 5, was consul B. C. 123 He was censor in B. C. 102 with Metellus Numiwith T. Quinctius Flamininus, and during this year dicus; and he exerted himself, along with his brother
and the following carried on war against the inhabi- Lucius, to obtain the recall of Numidicus from
tants of the Balearic islands, who were accused of banishment in B. C. 99. (Eutrop. iv. 25; Tac.
piracy. He entirely subdued them, and founded se- Germ. 37; Obsequ. 98; Vell. Pat. ii. 8; Cic. post
veral cities in the islands; and in consequence of his Red. in Sen. 15, post Red. ad Quir. 3.) The anvictories he obtained a triumph in B. C. 121, and nexed coin was struck by order of this C. Metellus.
received the surname of Balearicus. He was censor The head of the obverse is that of Pallas, and the
in B. C. 120 with L. Calpurnius Piso. (Plut. de elephants drawing a triumphal car on the reverse,
Fort. Rom. 4; Cic. Brut. 74, pro Dom. 53; Liv. refer, like the reverse of the preceding coin, to the
Epit. 60; Eutrop. iv. 21, who erroneously calls victory of the ancestor of L. Metellus over the
him Lucius; Oros. v. 13; Flor. iii. 8; Strab. iii. Carthaginians. [No. I.]
p. 167.)
8. L. CAECILIUS Q. F. Q. N. M-ETELLUS DIADEMATUS, brother of the preceding and son of No.
5, has been frequently confounded with Metellus
Dalmaticus, consul B. C. 119 [No. 13], who was a
son of Metellus Calvus [No. 6]. Metellus Diadematus received the latter surname from his wear-
ing for a long time a bandage round his forehead,
in consequence of an ulcer. He was consul B. C. COIN OF C. METELLUS.
117, with Q. Mucius Scaevola; and Eutropius
(iv. 23) erroneously ascribes to him the triumph of 11, 12. CAECILIAE (METELLAE), two sisters of
Dalmaticus. Clinton (ad ann.) falls into the same the preceding four brothers. [CAECILIA, Nos. 1,2.]
mistake. He lived to see the return of his first- 13. L. CAECILIUS L. F. Q. N. METELLUS DALcousin Metellus Numidicus from exile, and exerted MATICITS, son of No. 6, and frequently confounded,
himself to obtain his recall. (Cic. post Red. in Sen. as has been already remarked, with Diadematus.
15, post Red. ad Quir. 3.) [No. 8.] He is spoken of by Cicero as the mater9. M. CAECILIUS Q. F. Q. N. METELLUS, brother ral grandfather of Scaurus, whom Cicero defended,
of the two preceding and son of No. 5, was consul since his daughter Caecilia married the father of
B. C. 115, with M. Aemilius Scaurus,' the year in Scaurus. Metellus was consul in B. c. 119, with
which his father died. In B. c. 114 he was sent L. Aurelius Cotta, and through desire of a triumph
to Sardinia as proconsul, to suppress an insurrection declared war against the Dalmatians, who had been
in the island, which he succeeded in doing, and guilty of no offence against Rome. The Dalobtained a triumph in consequence in B. C. 113, matians offered no opposition to him, and after
on the same day as his brother Caprarius. (Vell. passing the winter quietly in their town of Salonae,
Pat. i. I 1, ii. 8; Eutrop. iv. 25.) he returned to Rome and obtained the undeserved
The annexed coin which bears the legend M. honour of a triumph, and the surname Dalmaticus
METELLUS Q. F. was struck by order of the pre- or Delmaticus. With the booty obtained in this
ceding Metellus. The reverse represents the head war he repaired the temple of Castor and Pollux.
In B. C. 115 he was censor with Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, and, in conjunction with his colleagues,
expelled thirty-two members from the senate,
among whom was C. Licinius Geta, who was afterlwards censor himself. Metellus was also pontifex
- ~ maximus; and the decision which he came to in the
case of the Vestals, who were brought before him
for trial in B. C. 114, was generally.condemned.'COIN OF M. MVIETELLUS. [See above, p. 782, a.] He was-alive in B. c. 100,
when he is mentioned as one of the senators of
of an elephant enclosed in Macedonian shields, and high rank, who took up arms against Saturnithe whole surrounded by a laurel crown: the nus. (Appian. Illyr. 11; Liv. Epit. 62; Cic. pro
elephant has reference to the victory of his great- Scaur. 2; Plut. Pomp. 2; Cic. Verr. i. 55, 59,'grandfather in Sicily over the Carthaginians [No. pro Cluent. 42; Ascon. in Cic. Alil. p. 46, ed
1], and the Macedonian shields to the conquest of Orelli; Cic. pro C. Rabir. 7.)