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1058 METELLUS. nmi; Zonar. ix. 28; Pans. vii. 13, 15 ; A pp. Hisp. 76; Val. Max. ii. 7. § 10, iii. 2. § 21, v. 1. § 5, vii. 1. § 1, vii. 6. § 4, ix. 3. § 7 ; Frontin. Strat. iii. 7, iv. 1. § 23; the passages of Cicero in OrelK's 07tom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 102; Meyer, Orator. Roman. Fraym. p. 159, 2d. ed.) 6. L. Caecilius Q. f. L. n. Metellus Cal- vus, brother of No. 5, was consul b. c. 142 with Q. Fabius Maximus Servilianus. All that is re- corded of this Metellus is that he bore testimony, along with his brother Macedonicus, against Q. Pompeius, the consul of b. c. 141, when he was accused of extortion. (Oros. v. 4; Obsequ. 81 ; Cic ad Alt. xiL 5. § 3, pro Font. 7 ; Val. Max. viii. 5. $ 1.) ,7. Q. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Ba- i>EARicus, eldest son of No. 5, was consul B. c. 123 with T. Quinctius Flamininus, and during this year and the following carrier! on war against the inhabi- tants of the Balearic islands, who were accused of piracy. He entirely subdued them, and founded se- veral cities in the islands ; and in consequence of his victories he obtained a triumph in b. c. 121, and received the surname of Balearicus. He was censor in fi. c. 120 with L. Calpurnius Piso. (Plut. de F(»i. Rom. 4 ; Cic. Brut. 74, pro Dam. 53 ; Liv. Epit. 60 ; Eutrop. iv. 21, who erroneously calls him Lucius ; Oros. v. 1 3 ; Flor. iii. 8 ; Strab. iii. p. 167.) 8. L. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Dia- BEMATUS, brother of the preceding and son of No. .5, has been frequently confounded with Metellus Dalmaticus, consul B. c. 119 [No. 13], who was a son of Metellus Calvus [No. 6]. Metellus Dia- dematus received the latter surname from his wear- ing for a long time a bandage round his forehead, in consequence of an ulcer. He was consul b. c. 117, with Q. Mucins Scaevola ; and Eutropius (iv. 23) erroneously ascribes to him the triumph of Dalmaticus. Clinton (ad ann.) falls into the same mistake. He lived to see the return of his first- cousin Metellus Numidicus from exile, and exerted liimself to obtain his recalL (Cic. post Red. in Sen. 15, post Red. ad Quir. 3.) fl. M. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus, brother of the two preceding and son of No. 5, was consul B. c. 1 15, with M. Aemilius Scaurus, the year in which his father died. In b. c. 114 ke was sent to Sardinia as proconsul, to suppress an insurrection ia the island, which he succeeded in doing, and obtained a triumph in consequence in B.C. 113, on the same day as his brother Caprai"ius. (Veil. Pat. i. ] 1, iL 8 ; Eutrop. iv. 25.) The annexed coin which bears the legend m, metellus Q. f. was struck by order of the pre- ceding Metellus. The reverse represents the head COIN OP M. METELLUS. of an elephant enclosed in Macedonian shields, and the whole surrounded by a laurel crown: the elephant has reference to the victory of his great- grandfather in Sicily over the Carthaginians [No. IJ, and the Macedonian shields to the conquest of METELLUS. Andriscus in Macedonia by his father [No. fij. (Eckhel, vol. V. p. 151.) 10. C. Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Ca- PRARius, younger brother of the three preceding, and son of No. 5. The origin of his surname is quite uncertain. He served under Scipio at the siege of Numantia, B.C. 133, and the abuse which he received from Scipio, according to the tale re- lated by Cicero {de Orat. ii. 66), may have been owing to the enmity between his father [see above, p. 1057, b.] and Scipio, rather than to any demerits of his own. He was consul b. c. 1 1 3 with Cn. Papi- rius Carbo, and went to Macedonia to carry on war with the Thracians, whom he quickly subdued. He obtained a triumph in consequence in the same year and on the same day with his brother Marcus. He was censor in b. c. 102 with Metellus Numi- dicus ; and he exerted himself, along with his brother Lucius, to obtain the recall of Numidicus from banishment in B. c. ^^. (Eutrop. iv. 25 ; Tac. Gerrn. 37 ; Obsequ. 98 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 8 ; Cic.post Red. in Sen. 15, pod Red. ad Quir. 3.) The an- nexed coin was struck by order of this C. Metellus. The head of the obverse is that of Pallas, and the elephants drawing a triumphal car on the reverse, refer, like the reverse of the preceding coin, to the victory of the ancestor of L. Metellua over the Carthaginians. [No. 1.] COIN of c. metellus. 11, 12. Caeciliae (Metellae), two sisters of the preceding four brothers. [Caecilia, Nos. 1,2.] 13. L. Caecilius L. f. Q. n. Metellus Dal- maticus, son of No. 6, and frequently confounded, as has been already remarked, with Diadematus. [No. 8.] He is spoken of by Cicero as the mater- nal grandfather of Scaurus, whom Cicero defended, since his daughter Caecilia married the father of Scaurus. Metellus was consul in B.C. 119, with L. Aurelius Cotta, and through desire of a triumph declared war against the Dalmatians, who had been guilty of no offence against Rome. The Dal- matians offered no opposition to him, and afterj passing the winter quietly in their town of Salonae, he returned to Rome and obtained the undeservedl honour of a triumph, and the surname Dalmaticus or Delmaticus. With the booty obtained in thia war he repaired the temple of Castor and Pollux.^ In B. c. 115 he was censor with Cn. Domitius Ahe- nobarbus, and, in conjunction with his colleagues, | expelled thirty-two members from the senate^ among whom was C. Licinius Geta, who was aftei wards censor himself. Metellus was also pontifex!* maximus ; and the decision which he came to in the case of the Vestals, who were brought before hira for trial in b. c. 114, was generally condemned. [See above, p. 782, a.] He was alive in b. c. 100, when he is mentioned as one of the senators of high rank, who took up arms against Saturni- nus. ( Appian. Illyr. 1 1 ; Liv. Epit. 62 ; Cic. jyro Scaur. 2 ; Plut. Fomp. 2 ; Cic. Verr. i. pro Cluent. 42 ; Ascon. in Cic. Mil. p. Orelli ; Cic. pro C. Rabir. 7.) 55, 59, 46, ed.