Lucius Caecilius Metellus (cos. 68)
🏛️ Career
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Praetor
Broughton: Probably, but not certainly, the Metellus, Praetor, mentioned in Cic. Tull. 39. See 70, Promagistrates.
Sources (1)
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Broughton, MRR2
- Cic. Tull. 39
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
Q. Marcius Rex (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 71 BCE (Praetor) , 68 BCE (Consul)
L. Afranius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)
Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 71 BCE (Consul)
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Broughton, MRR2
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Broughton: Metellus died early in the year (a). Cilicia was withdrawn from the command of Lucullus and assigned to Marcius (b; see 67, Promagistrates). A brother of Metellus Creticus, and son of C. Metellus Caprarius and grandson of Q. Metellus Macedonicus (c).
Sources (4)
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Broughton, MRR2
- CIL 12.2.905, 956; Dio 36.4.1; Chr. 354 (Metello et Vatia); Fast. Hyd. (Marcio Rege et Metello), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Marcius, CIL 12.2.747, and perhaps 660 (but see 118, Consuls). See Degrassi 131, 488f.
- (a) Dio 36.4.1
- (b) Dio 36.2.2; cf. Suet. Iul. 8
- (c) Cic. Verr. 1.27; CIL 12.2.746
Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member
Q. Marcius Rex (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 71 BCE (Praetor) , 68 BCE (Consul)
L. Afranius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 71 BCE (Praetor)
Bellinus (Bellienus 1) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 68 BCE (Praetor)
C. Licinius Macer (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 68 BCE (Praetor)
Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 71 BCE (Consul)
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Broughton, MRR2
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