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Ancient Roman nobleman and politician For his son and tribune of the plebs in 62 BC, see Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 57 BC).
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (c. 135 BC – 55 BC) was a senator and consul.

Metellus Nepos was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus. He served as praetor some time before the year 100 BC and possibly as aedile c. 104 BC.

He was elected consul in 98 BC with Titus Didius as his colleague. During his consulship, he brought legislation, the leges Caeciliae-Didiae, which required bills brought before the assemblies to have only one topic and mandated that three market days must elapse between a bill's presentation and a vote thereon.

Metellus Nepos married Licinia Prima, after she had divorced the Pontifex Maximus Quintus Mucius Scaevola, with whom she had a daughter Mucia Tertia. Licinia and Metellus Nepos had two children:

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Notes

  1. 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 Quintus Caecilius Metellus might have been cognominated due to his known prodigality. (Cfr. F. Noel, in Dictionnaire Historique ...)
  2. ^ Münzer 1897.
  3. "CAEC1787 Q. Caecilius (95) Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Nepos". Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  4. Broughton 1952, p. 4.
  5. Cooley, Alison (2012). The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-139-56884-5. OCLC 812917505.

Sources

  • Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
  • Münzer, Fredrich (1897). "Caecilius 95" . Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (in German). Vol. III, 1. Stuttgart: Butcher. cols. 1216 – via Wikisource.
Political offices
Preceded byMarcus Antonius
Aulus Postumius Albinus
Roman consul
98 BC
with Titus Didius
Succeeded byGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus
Publius Licinius Crassus
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