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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (cos. 60)

Consul in 60 BCE. Husband of infamous Clodia (subject of Pro Caelio) and brother in law of Claudius Pulcher

🏛️ Career

  1. 68 BCE
    (aged 36)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    MT: Broughton explains the attestation of the tribunes in a single note, citing the Lex Antonia (to restore freedom to Termessus, modern Antalya Turkey) and CIL 12.2.744. Question remains around which Quintus Caecilius was tribune in this year: Celer or Nepos?

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.629): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Afranius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Roscius Otho (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 67 BCE
    (aged 37)
    Aedile ·plebis

    MT: No further comments in MRR2

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.629): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Afranius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Roscius Otho (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 63 BCE
    (aged 41)
    Praetor

    Broughton: He refused to accept custody of Catiline when the latter was prosecuted under the Lex Plautia de vi (a). He raised forces in the Ager Picenus and the Ager Gallicus (b).

    Sources (3)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.629): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Afranius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Roscius Otho (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

  4. 60 BCE
    (aged 44)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Afranius

    Broughton: Cicero considered Afranius ineffective (a). Metellus as Consul-Designate and as Consul opposed the measures desired by Pompey, and also the demands of the companies of publicans for remission of their contracts for the taxes of Asia, and carried his opposition to the Pompeian Tribune Flavius to the point of being haled to prison (b). He opposed the attempts of his brother-in-law Clodius to transfer himself to the Plebs (c). The Consuls were assigned the two Gallic provinces by special decree of the Senate in March, 60, Metellus probably receiving Transalpine, and Afranius, Cisalpine, Gaul (d), but the Tribune Flavius threatened to take Metellus' province from him, and probably carried out his threat; at any rate Metellus died suddenly before April, 59, without leaving the city (e). See Broughton, TAPhA 79 (1948) 73-76.

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.915, 916, 917; Cic. Att. 1.18.8; Dom. 13; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 131, 490f. ([-]ci[-]); Plin. NH 2.170; Flor. 2.13.8; Dio 37, Index, and 49. 1; Obseq. 62; Chr. 354 (Afranio et Metello); Fast. Hyd. (Afranio et Metello Cedere); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod.; on Afranius, CIL 12.2.752-ILS 878; and on Metellus Cic. Pis. 8; Hor. Carm. 2.1.1; Ascon. 7 C.
      • (a) Cic. Att. 1.18-20
      • (b) Cic. Att. 1. 17-20, and esp. 2. 1.8; Dio 37.49-50
      • (c) Cic. Att. 2.1.4-5, cf. 1.18.5; Har. Resp. 45; Cael. 60; Dio 37.51.1-2
      • (d) Cic. Att. 1.19.2, and 20.5; Dio 37.50.4
      • (e) Cic. Cael. 59; Sest. 130-13 1; Vat. 19; Att. 2.5.2; Dio 37.50.4
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.629): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antonius Hibrida (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 68 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 60 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Afranius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 60 BCE (Consul)

    L. Roscius Otho (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 63 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus (cos. 98)
  2. Adoptive parent
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer
  3. Siblings
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (cos. 57)