Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer edit

Consul in 60 BCE. Husband of infamous Clodia and brother in law of Claudius Pulcher

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Career

67 BCE

Aedile ·plebis edit

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63 BCE

Praetor edit

He refused to accept custody of Catiline when the latter was prosecuted under the Lex Plautia de vi. He raised forces in the Ager Picenus and the Ager Gallicus. (MRR2)
60 BCE

Consul edit

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.