Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio (cos. 52) edit

Career

1. 57 BCE
   Aedile ·curule edit

   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.

2. 55 BCE
   Praetor edit

   The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.

3. 52 BCE
   Consul edit

   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).

Family