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CAEC1424 Q. Caecilius (94) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Macedonicus

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Status

• Nobilis Expand

  Porc. Latro ap. Sen. Controv. 10.1.8

Life Dates

• 190?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
• 115, death (Broughton MRR I)

Relationships

grandson of

? Q. Caecilius (81) L. f. L. n. Metellus (cos. 206) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plin. n.h. VII 142

son of

? Q. Caecilius (81) L. f. L. n. Metellus (cos. 206) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plin. n.h. VII 142

brother of

L. Caecilius (83) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Calvus (cos. 142) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Font. 23, Val. Max. VIII 5.1

cousin of

? -. (Caecilius) (not in RE) Metellus (cousin of? Q. Caecilius (94) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Macedonicus (cos. 143)) (RRC)

father of

Q. Caecilius (82) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Balearicus (cos. 123) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Cornel. 63C, Auct. vir. ill. 61.6, Cic. Brut. 213, Cic. Brut. 81, Cic. de orat. II 267, Cic. fin. V 82, Cic. Phil. VIII 14, Cic. Tusc. I 85, Flor. I 43.1, Frontin. strat. IV 1.11, Plin. n.h. VII 142, Plin. n.h. VII 144, Plin. n.h. VII 59, Plut. Mor. 318, Val. Max. IV 1.12, Val. Max. VII 1.1, Vell. I 11.6f.

C. Caecilius (84) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Caprarius (cos. 113) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Auct. vir. ill. 61.6, Cic. Brut. 213, Cic. Brut. 81, Cic. de orat. II 267, Cic. fin. V 82, Cic. Phil. VIII 14, Cic. Tusc. I 85, Frontin. strat. IV 1.11, Plin. n.h. VII 142, Plin. n.h. VII 144, Plut. Mor. 318, Val. Max. IV 1.12, Val. Max. VII 1.1, Vell. I 11.6f.

Caecilia (130) Metella (daughter of Q. Caecilius (94) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Macedonicus (cos. 143)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. fin. V 82, Plin. n.h. VII 59, Plut. Mor. 318, Val. Max. VII 1.1

Caecilia (131) Metella (daughter of Q. Caecilius (94) Q. f. L. n. Metellus Macedonicus (cos. 143)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 213, Cic. de orat. II 267, Flor. I 43.1, Plin. n.h. VII 142, Plin. n.h. VII 144, Val. Max. IV 1.12

M. Caecilius (77) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus (cos. 115) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Auct. vir. ill. 61.6, Cic. Brut. 213, Cic. Brut. 81, Cic. de orat. II 267, Cic. fin. V 82, Cic. Phil. VIII 14, Cic. Tusc. I 85, Frontin. strat. IV 1.11, Plin. n.h. VII 142, Plin. n.h. VII 144, Plin. n.h. VII 59, Plut. Mor. 318, Val. Max. IV 1.12, Val. Max. VII 1.1, Vell. I 11.6f.

L. Caecilius (93) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Diadematus (cos. 117) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Auct. vir. ill. 61.6, Cic. Brut. 213, Cic. Brut. 81, Cic. de orat. II 267, Cic. fin. V 82, Cic. Phil. VIII 14, Cic. Tusc. I 85, Frontin. strat. IV 1.11, Plin. n.h. VII 142, Plin. n.h. VII 144, Plin. n.h. VII 59, Plut. Mor. 318, Val. Max. IV 1.12, Val. Max. VII 1.1, Vell. I 11.6f.

grandfather of

Q. Caecilius (95) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (cos. 98) (Badian 1990)

great grandfather of

Q. Caecilius (99) Q. f. Q. n. Fab. Metellus Pius Scipio = P. Cornelius (352) Scipio Nasica (cos. 52) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. dom. 123

Career

• Legatus (Envoy) 168 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Sent to Rome by Paullus to report his victory at Pydna (Liv. 44.45.3; 45.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
• Augur? 155 to 141 (Rüpke 2005)
• Monetalis 155 to 149 (RRC) Expand
  • ref. 211 (RRC)
• Tribunus Plebis c. 154 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • The most probable date for Lentulus' condemnation is 154 or 153, since he was Consul in 156 and might have been Proconsul in 155. Livy mentions only Praetors. Since Metellus became Praetor in 148 he might well have been a Tribune about 154. Since there is no other reference to the Lex Caecilia,{452} Valerius' text is usually emended to Calpurnia, and Lentulus' condemnation placed in 148 or 147; but the example of 171 shows that extraordinary courts had previously been established by tribunicial action. See Willems, Sénat 2.275; Rotondi 289f. (Broughton MRR I)
  • L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus, Cos. 156, was convicted of peculation under a Lex Caecilia (Val. Max. 6.9.10; Fest. 360 L), while Livy records (Per. 47) that several Praetors were condemned in 154 or 153 for this offence. See Niccolini FTP 409. (Broughton MRR I)
• Aedilis? c. 152 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)
• Praetor 148 Macedonia/Achaea, Macedonia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Recaptured Macedonia from the pretender Andriscus, and secured the person of the pretender himself from the Thracian prince Byzes (Polyb. 36.10.1-7, and 17.13-15; Liv. Oxy. Per. 50, and Per. 50; Strabo 13.4.2; Val. Max. 7.5.4; Vell. 1.11.2; Tac. Ann. 12.62; Flor. 1.30.5; Pausan. 7.13.1; Ruf. Fest. Brev. 7; Eutrop. 4.13; Ampel. 16.5; 44.11; Auct. Vir. Ill. 61.1; Porphyr. 7.4.11, in FHG 3.702; Jerome, Chr. ad ann. 150, p. 143 Helm; Oros. 5.3.2; Zon. 9.28), and urged Roman envoys who were on their way to Asia to intervene in the war between the Achaeans and the Spartans (Pausan. 7.13.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)
  • p. 740, footnote 133 (Brennan 2000)
• Promagistrate 147 Macedonia, Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • See 148, Praetors. His activity in Macedonia and Thrace may have continued into 147. He also warned the Achaeans not to make war on Sparta (Polyb. 38.12.1-3; Pausan. 7.13.1). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)
• Promagistrate 146 Macedonia, Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Defeated the Achaeans and their allies at Scarpheia and Chaeroneia, and advanced to the Isthmus where Mummius took over the command in Greece (Polyb. 38.12-13; Pausan. 7.15-16; cf. IG 7.3490, with Hermes 6 [1872] 140; 9.2.37; Liv. Per. 52; Vell. 1.11.2, and 21.2; Val. Max. 7.5.4; Flor. 1.32.3; Auct. Vir. Ill. 60.2; 61.1; Oros. 5.3.2-5, praetor). Returned to celebrate a triumph over the Macedonians and Andriscus (Cic. Mur. 31; Fin. 5.82; Pis. 58, and 61; Liv. Per. 52; Vell. 1.11.6; Val. Max. 7.1.1, and 5.4; 8.5.1; Plin. NH 7.145; App. Lib. 135; Flor. 1.30.5; Eutrop. 4.14; Auct. Vir. Ill. 61.1; Degrassi 557). See Grueber, CRRBM 1.175ff.; Cesano, Stud. Num. 1.207-209. See also the dedication by Hyampolis, SEG 3.414, with the title Proconsul. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)
• Triumphator 146 (Rich 2014) Expand
  • Triumph ex Macedonia de Andrisco vel Pseudophilippo. MRR I.467, Itgenshorst no. 209, Rich no. 208. (Rich 2014)
• Repulsa (Cos.) 145 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
  • pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)
• Repulsa (Cos.) 144 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
  • pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)
• Consul 143 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 125, 466f. (Ap. Clau[dius C. f. Ap. n. Pu]lcher, Q. Caeciliu[s Q. f. L. n. Metell.] Macedon.); Fast. Ant., ib. 160f. ([Ap. Clau]di P[ulcher], [Q. Caecili. M]et.); Liv. Oxy. Per. 53; Frontin. Aq. 1.7; Obseq. 21; Auct. Vir. Ill. 61.3; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 5.4.7; Cassiod.; and on Metellus, SIG 680; Val. Max. 7.1.1; 8.5.1. Claudius was assigned Italy, made war upon the Salassi, was defeated, but after the Decemviri at the command of the Sibylline books made an offering in enemy territory he was victorious (Liv. Per. 53; Dio fr. 74; Obseq. 21; Oros. 5.4.7). Being refused a triumph, he celebrated one on his own authority, foiling a tribunician veto by having his daughter, a Vestal, ride with him (Cic. Cael. 34; Val. Max. 5.4.6; Suet. Tib. 2; Dio fr. 74; Oros. 5.4.7; Macrob. Sat. 3.14.14; see Degrassi 558). Metellus was assigned Hither Spain, but{472} had first to subdue an uprising of slaves at Minturnae before he engaged in the Celtiberian war in Spain (Liv. Oxy. Per. 53; Val. Max. 9.3.7; App. Ib. 76; see Schulten, Gesch. Numantia 66f.; and 142, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
• Promagistrate 142 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Proconsul in Hither Spain (Liv. Per. 53; Val. Max. 7.4.5; 9.3.7), where in active war against the Celtiberians he captured Contrebia and attacked Numantia (Liv. Oxy. Per. and Per. 53; Val. Max. 2.7.10; 3.2.21; 5.1.5; 7.4.5; 9.3.7; Vell. 2.5.2-3; Frontin. Str. 1.1.12; 3.7.3; 4.1.11; 4.1.23, and 7.42; Plut. Apophth. Metelli 1-2; Flor. 1.33.10; App. Ib. 76; Eutrop. 4.16; Ampel. 18.14; Auct. Vir. Ill. 61.3). See Schulten, Gesch.Numantia 68f.{476} (Broughton MRR I)
• Triumphator? c. 142 (Itgenshorst 2005) Expand
  • Triumph? de Celtibereis. Itgenshorst no.212b (triumphus incertus, 142?). Not listed in MRR or Rich. (Itgenshorst 2005)
• Augur 140 to 115 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
  • It seems probable that these three men became Augurs before the consulship of Laelius in 140 (Cic. Lael. 77). On Scipio, see Elog., CIL 1 .1, p. 198- Inscr. Ital. 13.3.71; on Laelius, optimus augur, Cic. ND 3.5; Phil. 2.83; and on Metellus, Cic. Fin. 5.83. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Plebeian. Probable member of the college of Augurs just before the death of Tiberius Gracchus in 133. (Broughton MRR I)
  • L. R. Taylor interprets the lituus on these coins as references by Metellus Pius (Cos. 81) and Metellus Scipio (Cos. 52), who both were Pontifices, to the augurates of their respective grandfathers. As only one member of a family could be a member of the college at one time (Dio 39.17.1), Numidicus was probably the successor to his uncle. Membership in the college of Augurs would explain Numidicus' refusal to take the oath to maintain Saturninus' legislation in 100: as Augur he knew it was invalid. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus succeeded Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus. Cic. Fin. 5.82; Vell. 1.11.7; Val. Max. 7.1.1; cf. Cic. Lael. 77. (Broughton MRR I)
• Legatus (Lieutenant) 136 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Though hostile to each other and to the Consul Philus, they were compelled by the Senate at Philus' wish to serve with him in Spain (Val. Max. 3.7.5; Dio fr. 82). On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
• Promagistrate? c. 133 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)
• Censor 131 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 126, 470f. (Q. Caecili[- - - -]); Liv. Per. 59, both plebeian for the first time; Fest. 360 L; on Metellus, Cic. Fin. 5.82; Dom. 123; Val. Max. 8.5.1; and on Pompeius, Cic. Brut. 263. Metellus in revising the list of senators passed over C. Atinius Labeo, who threatened to hurl him from the Tarpeian rock, and did consecrate his property (Cic. Dom. 123; Liv. Per. 59; Plin. NH 7.143). He also made his famous speech to the Senate urging compulsory marriage (Liv. Per. 59; Suet. Aug. 89; cf. FOR 1.97-100, 221f.). Ap. Claudius Pulcher, Cos. 143, the Princeps Senatus, probably died before the end of this censorship (see 130, Special Commissions), and L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus, Cos. 156, was appointed as his successor. On Pompeius, see D.- G. 4.313, no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
  • L. Cornelius Lentulus Lupus (Cos. 156, Cens. 147), whose recent death occasioned Book I of the Satires of Lucilius, is termed Princeps Senatus in Acro's scholion to Hor. Sat. 2.1.67 (Marx, Proleg. XXXVI; Porphyrio mistakenly refers to Rutilius Lupus, Cos. 90), while the Princeps Senatus of 121 was P. Cornelius Lentulus (Cos. Suff. 162; see 125, Censors), who must have attained his position at the first previous censorship. References to the activities of the publicans in Asia led Cichorius (Untersuch. zu Lucilius 72-86) to believe that the early books of Lucilius were not published before the legislation of C. Gracchus in 123 (see 123, Tribunes of the Plebs), and that therefore Lupus' death was after 123. He even suggested a censorship, not otherwise attested, between 123 and 120 to account for the position of P. Corn. Lentulus in 121. Recent evidence has refuted him on both counts. New fragments of the S. C. de Agro Pergameno prove that it is to be dated in 129 (not 110, as Cichorius believed; Passerini, Athenaeum 15 [1937] 252-283), and that the publicans were active in Asia at that time; and the Fasti of Antium (Degrassi 162f.) show that no Censors were listed between 123 and 120. We must return to Marx's dating. Lentulus Lupus became Princeps Senatus upon the death of Claudius in 131 or 130, and died before the end of the censorship of 126-125, when he was succeeded by P. Lentulus. See 133, note 1. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Coins inscribed QME. In MRR 2.433, and Index, 539, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.253, no. 211, 155-149 B.C. Aedile ca. 152. A decree of the Thessalian League, recently discovered at Larisa, and presented by K. I. Gallis, Ephor of Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum of Larisa, in a communication to the 8th Internat. Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy in Athens, 1982, pp. 28-29 of the program, is inscribed in honor of Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus, most probably the future consul of 143. He is honored as aedile (#), therefore at a date in the late 150s. He had, in a most unusual proceeding, come to Larisa himself in a time of scarcity in order to arrange for the collection and transport of a large quantity of grain (430,000 koinoi) to Rome and to make payment for both grain and transport. On the activity of curule aediles in connection with the grain supply, see Livy 30.26.5-6; 31.50.1; 33.42.8. See below, on Metellus Nepos (95), G. Manganaro, Chiron 13, 1983, 405-409, and P. Garnsey, T. Gallant, and D. Rathbone, ""Thessaly and the Grain Supply of Rome during the Second Century B.C.,"" JRS 74, 1984, 30-44. Praetor 148, and proconsul 147-146. Because continuous military action in Macedonia and Greece left little or no time for provincial organization before the succession of L. Mummius in 146, M. G. Morgan holds that the organization of Macedonia as well as of Greece was largely due to the latter and the ten commissioners (Historia 18, 1969, 422-446). Hyampolis made a dedication to Metellus with the title #. For other evidence of this title, see Morgan, loc. cit. From the spoils he built a porticus Metelli in circo Flaminio, and within it probably two temples, one of Jupiter Stator and one to Juno Regina (Veil. 1.11.3-5; Pliny, NH 34.31; 36.40; Vitruv. 3.2.5; see M. G. Morgan, Hermes 99, 1971, 480-505). Special command, ca. 133. With Cn. Servilius Caepio (46), Cos. 141, he crushed a slave uprising at Minturnae and Sinuessa (Oros. 5.9.4; cf. Obsequens 27b; see Badian, Historia 6, 1957, 321). On his censorship, see L. Hayne, Historia 27, 1978, 234- 235. Addendum. This volume was already in proof when the article by P. Garnsey and D. Rathbone, ""The Background of the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus"" (JRS 75, 1985, 20-25), became available to me. On the basis of the names and the probable dates of the Strategoi of the Koinon of Thessaly, found in decrees inscribed without paragraphing by the same hand on the same stone as the grain inscription, the authors suggest ca. 135- 129 as the date. The only Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus available at that time is Balearicus (82), Cos. 123, who, if he was an aedile, must have held that office by 129. All three of the Metelli considered, Macedonicus, Balearicus, and Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos (95), Cos. 98, probably held an aedileship, but it is not otherwise attested for any of them. See also E. S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I, 164-165, note 44, who favors Balearicus." (Broughton MRR III)

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