Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CAEC0905 L. Caecilius (73) Metellus

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Status

• Nobilis Expand

  Liv. 22.53.5, Liv. Per. 22, Frontin. Strat. 4.7.39, Auct. Vir. Ill. 49.5

Life Dates

• 241?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

  Develin no. 71.

Relationships

son of

? L. Caecilius (72) L. f. C. n. Metellus (cos. 251) (Zmeskal 2009)

brother of

? Q. Caecilius (81) L. f. L. n. Metellus (cos. 206) (DPRR Team)

? M. Caecilius (76) Metellus (pr. 206) (DPRR Team)

Career

• Quaestor 214 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Although in the passages from Livy and Valerius Maximus this Caecilius Metellus is given three different praenomina, Münzer (RE), D.- G. (2.16-17), Sobeck (7) and Niccolini (F T P 93) agree that the correct one was probably Lucius (cf. Liv. 22.53.5). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Reduced to an aerarius by the Censors for wishing to abandon Italy after Cannae (Liv. 24.18.1-4, and 43.2-4; Val. Max. 2.9.7). (Broughton MRR I)
• Tribunus Plebis 213 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Indicted the Censors for making him an aerarius during his quaestorship (Liv. 24.43.1-3; see 214, Censors, and Quaestors). (Broughton MRR I)

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