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]
Metellus 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 the Pontifex Maximus Quintus Mucius Scaevola, of whom she had a daughter Mucia Tertia. They had two children:
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- 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 ...)
- Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 454
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| Preceded by Marcus Antonius Aulus Postumius Albinus |
Roman consul 98 BC with Titus Didius |
Succeeded by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Publius Licinius Crassus |
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