Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 98 BC)
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos[1] (c. 135 BC – 55 BC) was a senator and Consul in 98 BC with Titus Didius as his colleague.[2]
Mettelus Nepos was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus. He fought in the Iberian Peninsula against the Celtiberians and the Vaccaei, suffering before these a memorable defeat.
He married Licinia Prima, after she had divorced Pontifex Maximus Quintus Mucius Scaevola, of whom she had Mucia Tertia. They had two children:
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior
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Notes
- Cognomen which in its proper sense means grandson or nephew, but is also used as meaning incapable or dissipater. It was in this depreciative sense that might have been cognominated Quintus Caecilius Metellus due to his known prodigality. (Cfr. F. Noel, in Dictionnaire Historique ...)
- Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 454
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| Preceded by Aulus Postumius Albinus, and Marcus Antonius Orator |
Consul of the Roman Republic 98 BC with Titus Didius |
Succeeded by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus |
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