Coin of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (ca 130 BC or 127 BC – 63 BC) was a pro-Sullan state figure. Year 63 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Pompey conquers Phonecia, Coele-Syria Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix ( Latin: L•CORNELIVS•L•F•P•N•SVLLA•FELIX (c He was named Pius because of his 99 BC petition to return his father from exile ^[1] and made justice to his cognomen for the constance, frontality and inflexibility with which he allways fought for his father's rehabilitation and return to Rome. Year 99 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Consuls Aulus Postumius Albinus and The cognomen (plural cognomina) was originally the third name of an Ancient Roman in the Roman naming convention. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

Barely left out of teenagehood, he was made Pontifex Maximus, which office he later held again in 81 BC, Quaestor in 97 BC, Tribune in 92 BC, and Consul in 80 BC, having been a Praetor in 89 BC ^[2]. The Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs. Year 81 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Sulla is appointed dictator Quaestors were originally appointed by the Consuls to investigate criminal acts and determine if the consul needed to take public action Year 97 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Consuls Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Tribune (from the Latin: tribunus; Byzantine Greek form τριβούνος) was a title shared by 2–3 elected magistracies in the Year 92 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Consuls Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Consul (abbrev cos; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected Political office of the Roman Republic and the Empire. Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Battle of the Baetis River — Democratic rebel Praetor was a title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities the commander of an Army, either before Year 89 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Consuls Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo and He withdrew from Rome during the civil fights between Marius and Sulla, returning afterwards with the latter. Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix ( Latin: L•CORNELIVS•L•F•P•N•SVLLA•FELIX (c

As a military figure, he had his first commands in the war in 109-107 BC, when he accompanied his father Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus in Numidia during Jugurthine War, where his father took him as a simple cadet. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (ca 160 BC &ndash 91 BC was the leader of the conservative faction of the Roman Senate and a bitter enemy of Gaius Marius. Numidia (202 BC – 46 BC was an ancient Berber kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia ( North Africa) that later alternated The Jugurthine War takes its name from Jugurtha, nephew and later adopted son of Micipsa, King of Numidia. ^[3]. He later revealed to be one of the best subordinates of Sulla, but without any other objective than the one of fighting the demagogy with which Marius threatened Rome, never participating in the atrocious violence which marked such a troubled phase of the History of Rome. He was one of the Roman commanders in the Social War in 88 BC. The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the This article is about the conflict between Rome and her Italian allies between 91 and 88 BC For the Athenian conflict with its allies between 357 and 355 BC see Year 88 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome The Social War ends with the defeat of the Italian A Proconsul at that time, Pius stormed Venusia and killed the leader of Marsi Quintus Poppaedius Silo ^[4]. Ancient Rome In the Roman Republic, a proconsul was a Promagistrate (like a Propraetor) who after serving as Consul, spent a year The Marsi were an ancient people of Italy, whose chief centre was Marruvium, on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus. Quintus Poppaedius Silo (sometimes seen as Pompaedius) was the leader of the Italian tribe of the Marsi and one of the leaders of the Italians during the Social In 87 BC Pius by the order of Senate tried to make peace with the Samnites. Year 87 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected Consul The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome.

Made a Consul in 80 BC, he was then sent to Spain to combat Quintus Sertorius, where he and Marcus Perpenna Vento faced the roman power, establishing his bases in Metellinum (today Medellín) Castra Caecilia (today Cáceres), Viccus Caecilius, at the Sierra de Gredos, and at Caeciliana, near Setúbal. Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar. Events By place Rome Battle of the Baetis River — Democratic rebel Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Quintus Sertorius ( 123 BC - 72 BC) was a Roman statesman and general born in Nursia, in Sabine territory around 124 BC Marcus Perperna Vento (died 72 BC Roman statesman and general Medellín is a village in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, notable as the birthplace of Hernán Cortés in 1485 Cáceres is the capital of Cáceres Province in Extremadura, Spain (see map) The Sierra de Gredos is a Mountain range in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, located between Ávila, Cáceres, Madrid and Setúbal (sɨˈtubaɫ or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 172 After eight years of resistance, the rebels were forced to cede to the military ability of Metellus Pius, who had as a companion, in the final phase of the war, the valuable Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, with whom, despite his greater merit, he shared the glories of the Triumph after the death of Sertorius, marked in the end of 71 BC ^[5]. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'pɑmpi/ Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir ( Classical Latin abbreviation A Roman triumph ( la [[wikttriumphus triumphus]], Old Latin la triumpus, attested as the exclamation la TRIVMPE in the Carmen Arvale; via Events By place Rome Third Servile War ends — Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under

He married Licinia Crassa Secunda or Minor, daughter of Lucius Licinius Crassus Orator, and wife Mucia Secunda, from whom he had no children, for what he adopted his nephew by marriage and son of his second cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio, renamed Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, son of his sister in law's marriage Licinia Crassa Prima or Major to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, in turn a son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio and Caecilia Metella, daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus. Lucius Licinius Crassus (140 BC-91 BC was a Roman Consul. He was considered the greatest Roman Orator of his day by his pupil Cicero Lucius Licinius Crassus (140 BC-91 BC was a Roman Consul. He was considered the greatest Roman Orator of his day by his pupil Cicero Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (b c 100 BC or 98 BC - d Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (b c 140 BC) son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio and wife Caecilia Metella was a Consul in 111 Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (c 183 BC &ndash 132 BC Pergamum, Asia Minor) the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and his wife Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus (c 210 BC &ndash 116 BC/115 BC was a Praetor in 148 BC Consul in 143 BC Proconsul of Hispania Citerior

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Further reading

• Manuel Dejante Pinto de Magalhães Arnao Metello and João Carlos Metello de Nápoles, "Metellos de Portugal, Brasil e Roma", Torres Novas, 1998

See also

• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio