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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52)

Consul in 52 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 59 BCE
    (aged 36)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    MT: no further comments in MRR2

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

    Cn. Pompeius Magnus (2 years; raw 6.00, base 0.857, final 0.857): 55 BCE (Consul) , 52 BCE (Consul)

    P. Vatinius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 57 BCE (Aedile)

    T. Annius Milo Papianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 57 BCE
    (aged 38)
    Aedile ·curule

    Broughton: Broughton: Gave splendid gladiatorial games in honor of his adoptive father (a). Münzer (Hermes 40 [1905] 94-99) explains the delay of six years in the celebration of the games for Metellus by assuming that Metellus Scipio waited to give them as Aedile (cf. Caesar's games in 65 in honor of his father), and notes his association in office, distinction, and ancestry with Fabius Maximus. Both men appear to be mentioned in Antoine de la Sale's quotations from Cicero's Do Virtutibus (F. Gustafisson, BPhW 24 [1904] 1278f.). Münzer (RE Supb. 3.223, on no. 99) also cites Knoellinger, Cicero, De Virt. 28, 10ff., and 49f., which I have not seen.

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

    Cn. Pompeius Magnus (2 years; raw 6.00, base 0.857, final 0.857): 55 BCE (Consul) , 52 BCE (Consul)

    P. Vatinius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 57 BCE (Aedile)

    T. Annius Milo Papianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 55 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.

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

    Cn. Pompeius Magnus (2 years; raw 6.00, base 0.857, final 0.857): 55 BCE (Consul) , 52 BCE (Consul)

    P. Vatinius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 57 BCE (Aedile)

    T. Annius Milo Papianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

  4. 52 BCE
    (aged 43)
    Consul · Co-consul: Cn. Pompeius Magnus

    Broughton: As a candidate for the consulship he was involved in the election disorders and was prosecuted, but Pompey married his daughter, and used his influence to win acquittal (a); and eventually had him elected his colleague for the final months of the year (b). He carried a law restoring to the Censors the powers that had been removed by the Clodian law of 58 (c).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.933, Id. Sept.; Val. Max. 9. 1. 8; Dio 40, Index; Fast. Hyd. (see above), Chr. Pasc. (see above); Cassiod.
      • (a) Ascon. 30-31, 33-34, 43 C; Plut. Pomp. 55; Cat. Min. 47-48; App. BC 2.24; Dio 40.51, and 53; cf. Liv. Per. 107; Vell. 2.54.2; Val. Max. 9.5.3; Schol. Bob. 116, 161 Stangl; Schol. Gron. 322 Stangl
      • (b) Plut. Pomp. 55; App. BC 2.25; Dio 40.51
      • (c) Dio 40.57
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Pompeius Magnus (2 years; raw 6.00, base 0.857, final 0.857): 55 BCE (Consul) , 52 BCE (Consul)

    P. Vatinius (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.714, final 0.714): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 59 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 57 BCE (Aedile)

    T. Annius Milo Papianus (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.571, final 0.571): 57 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 55 BCE (Praetor)

    Gutta (not in RE) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.429, final 0.429): 55 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Publius Cornelius Scipio
  2. Adoptive parent
    Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (cos. 80)