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CAEC2078 Q. Caecilius (87) C. f. Q. n. Metellus Creticus

Status

Life Dates

  • Before 109?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
? C. Caecilius (84) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Caprarius (cos. 113) (Badian 1990)
brother of
? M. Caecilius (78) Metellus (pr. 69) (DPRR Team)
? C. Caecilius (71) Metellus (q.? before 82) (DPRR Team)
L. Caecilius (74) C. f. Q. n. Metellus (cos. 68) (Badian 1990)
father of
? Caecilia (136) Metella (daughter of? Q. Caecilius (87) C. f. Q. n. Metellus Creticus (cos. 69)) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Tribunus Plebis? 82 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 69. Wiseman has suggested that the Q. Metellus who was a tr. pl. one year and leg. the next (Cic. Leg. Man. 58) may be Metellus Creticus, and that he was tr. pl. in 82 and leg. in 81. But cf. above, on Metellus Celer (86). Cos. 60. Praetor. The pr. urb. mentioned in Val. Max. 7.7.7. may have been Creticus, Pr. between 74 and 72 (MRR 2.102, 108, note 3), not Celer (86), Pr. 63 (2.166). See above, no. 88. Food riots were more common before the Lex frumentaria of 72 (Sall. Hist. 2.45 M; see R. Seager, CR 20, 1970, 11). See also B. W. Frier, Urban Praetors and rural Violence, TAPhA 113, 1983, 224, 229, 233, who brings further support for dating his urban praetorship to 73 B.C. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Pontifex? 81 to 58 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 81 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 69. Wiseman has suggested that the Q. Metellus who was a tr. pl. one year and leg. the next (Cic. Leg. Man. 58) may be Metellus Creticus, and that he was tr. pl. in 82 and leg. in 81. But cf. above, on Metellus Celer (86). Cos. 60. Praetor. The pr. urb. mentioned in Val. Max. 7.7.7. may have been Creticus, Pr. between 74 and 72 (MRR 2.102, 108, note 3), not Celer (86), Pr. 63 (2.166). See above, no. 88. Food riots were more common before the Lex frumentaria of 72 (Sall. Hist. 2.45 M; see R. Seager, CR 20, 1970, 11). See also B. W. Frier, Urban Praetors and rural Violence, TAPhA 113, 1983, 224, 229, 233, who brings further support for dating his urban praetorship to 73 B.C. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Repulsa (Pr.) 74 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
    • pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)
  • Praetor? 73 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • 3 The praetorship of Metellus may be dated between 74 and 72, preferably in 74 since both Consuls supported him at the elections in 75 (Sall.). But Cicero does not refer to him as a colleague of Verres in this office. (Broughton MRR II)
    • A candidate in 75 (Sall. Hist. 2.45M). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 69. Wiseman has suggested that the Q. Metellus who was a tr. pl. one year and leg. the next (Cic. Leg. Man. 58) may be Metellus Creticus, and that he was tr. pl. in 82 and leg. in 81. But cf. above, on Metellus Celer (86). Cos. 60. Praetor. The pr. urb. mentioned in Val. Max. 7.7.7. may have been Creticus, Pr. between 74 and 72 (MRR 2.102, 108, note 3), not Celer (86), Pr. 63 (2.166). See above, no. 88. Food riots were more common before the Lex frumentaria of 72 (Sall. Hist. 2.45 M; see R. Seager, CR 20, 1970, 11). See also B. W. Frier, Urban Praetors and rural Violence, TAPhA 113, 1983, 224, 229, 233, who brings further support for dating his urban praetorship to 73 B.C. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 751, footnote 380 (Brennan 2000)
  • Praetor? 72 urbanus (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 69. Wiseman has suggested that the Q. Metellus who was a tr. pl. one year and leg. the next (Cic. Leg. Man. 58) may be Metellus Creticus, and that he was tr. pl. in 82 and leg. in 81. But cf. above, on Metellus Celer (86). Cos. 60. Praetor. The pr. urb. mentioned in Val. Max. 7.7.7. may have been Creticus, Pr. between 74 and 72 (MRR 2.102, 108, note 3), not Celer (86), Pr. 63 (2.166). See above, no. 88. Food riots were more common before the Lex frumentaria of 72 (Sall. Hist. 2.45 M; see R. Seager, CR 20, 1970, 11). See also B. W. Frier, Urban Praetors and rural Violence, TAPhA 113, 1983, 224, 229, 233, who brings further support for dating his urban praetorship to 73 B.C. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 751, footnote 380 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 69 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.904, 955; Cic. Cluent. 179; Ascon. 15, and 63 C; Joseph. AJ 14.4; Chr. 354 (Nepote et Metello); Fast. Hyd. (Hortensio et Metello), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod. See Degrassi 131, 486f. Both Consuls attempted, while Consuls-designate, to assist Verres against his accuser (Cic. Verr., passim, on Hortensius, esp. 1.18-21, 26, 37, 53; 2.3.222; 2.5.175; Brut. 319; Quintil. Inst. Or. 6.5.4; and on Metellus, Cic. Verr. 1.26-29; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 185, 205, 214f., 221, 230, 244, 260 Stangl; Schol. Gron. 331, 337, 351 Stangl). Hortensius refused the command against the Cretan pirates, which was then given to Metellus (Plut. Pomp. 29.2; Dio 36.1a [Xiph.]; Schol. Bob. 96 Stangl; cf. Cic. Verr. 2.2.76; Diod. 40.1; App. Sic. 6.1, and 2). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 68 Crete, Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 98) in Crete and Achaea with charge of the war against the pirates in Crete (Cic. Flacc. 30 and 63 and 100). He won an engagement off Cydonia and settled down to besiege that and other towns (Cic. Flacc. 30 and 63 and 100; Ad Brut. 1.8; Liv. Per. 98; Vell. 2.34.1; Val. Max. 7.6, ext. 1; Flor. 1.42.4; App. Sic. 6.2; Phlegon Trail. fr. 12, in FHG 3.606; Eutrop. 6.11.1; Oros. 6.4.2; cf. Solin. 1.91, p. 26 M). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 67 Crete, Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 9 Gäbler includes Metellus in his list of governors of Macedonia (RE 14.765), probably because he and his Legate L. Valerius Flaccus were active in Achaea (Cic. Flacc. 63; cf. CIL 12.2.746; 1G 3.565, from Argos and Athens, respectively). His activity in Greece however, like that of Antonius Creticus in 73-71, may refer to bases and preparations for his campaign in Crete. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99) in command of the war with the pirates in Crete. He captured many Cretan towns, but came into cohision with Pompey, to whom many Cretan towns preferred to surrender, but whose right to receive their surrender Metellus refused to recognize (Cic. Flacc. 6 and 30 and 63 and 100; Ad Brut. 1.8; Liv. fr. 28 W, and Per. 99; Plut. Pomp. 29; Dio 36.17a-19, and 45.1; cf. Cic. Leg. Man. 35 and 46; Val. Max. 7.6, ext. 1; Flor. 1.42.4; Eutrop. 6.11.1; Oros. 6.4.2; and on Gortyn, Head, HN² 467). He was saluted as Imperator (CIL 12.2.746; Guarducci, I. Cret. 2.252, no. 14; cf. IG 3.565). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 66 Crete, Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99). His quarrel with Pompey diverted by the new duties given to Pompey under the Manilian law, he carried through the organization of Crete as a Roman province (Cic. Flacc. 30 and 100; Ad Brut. 1.8; Liv. Per. 100; App. Sic. 6; Iustin 39.5.3; Ruf. Fest. 7. 1; Solin. 23.2 M; cf. Strabo 17.3.25, 840e; and on his cognomen Creticus, Ascon. 15, and 63 C). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 65 Crete, Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 3 The triumph of Metellus Creticus had already been obstructed for some time before 63 (Sall. Cat. 30.3-4). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99), but the date of his return from Crete is uncertain. See 66, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 64 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99). See 63, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 63 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99; see 68-63, Promagistrates). Still waiting outside the city to celebrate his triumph, he was sent to guard Apulia against agents of Catiline (Sall. Cat. 30.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 62 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 99). Late in May of this year he was at last permitted to celebrate his triumph over the Cretan pirates (Cic. Pis. 58; Act. Tr., Degrassi 84f., 566; Vell. 2.34.2, and 40.5; Flor. 1.42.6; 2.13.9; App. Sic. 6; Dio 36.17a; Eutrop. 6.11, and 16; cf. Sall. Cat. 30.3-4; Schol. Bob. 96 Stangl). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Triumphator 62 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph ex Creta insula. MRR II.176, Itgenshorst no. 257, Rich no. 257. (Rich 2014)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 60 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Appointed by decree of the Senate as ambassadors to induce various Gallic tribes not to join the Helvetii (Cic. Att. 1. 19. 2-3; cf. 1. 20.5). on Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 43, no. 28. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Pontifex 57 to after 54 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • The full list of the college of Pontifices, including the Flamen Martialis and the Flamen Quirinalis (no Flamen Dialis had been inaugurated since the death of Merula in 87) and the Pontifices Minores, as it was composed on September 29, 57, can be reconstructed from Cic. Har. Resp. 12: (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cic. Dom. 123. (Broughton MRR II)

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