Inevitably, Catiline was forced to fight when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer with three legions in the north blocked his escape.

* Metellus Scipio ( Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica ) killed at the battle of Thapsus while his forces attempt to surrender ( b. c. 100 BC or 98 BC )

* Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

* Consuls: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, pontifex maximus and general ( b. c. 130 BC or 127 BC )

* Consuls: Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Quintus Marcius Rex.

* Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius.

* Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos and Titus Didius

* Roman forces under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus defeat the forces of Jugurtha of Numidia at the Battle of the Muthul, with Gaius Marius as a subordinate.

The island was occupied by the Romans in 123 BCE under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus.

* The Roman censor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus attempts to remove the tribune Gaius Atinius Labeo Macerio from the Senate, the angry Atinius drags him to be thrown off the Tarpeian Rock, and Metellus is only saved by the intervention of other senators.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ( d. 63 BC )

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus conquers the Balearic Islands for Rome, for which he earns the cognomen " Balearicus.

* The Celtiberian War ends when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus crushes the rebels.

* With the defeat of Andriscus in the Battle of Pydna by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Macedon is reorganized as a Roman province by 146 BC.

He gradually drifted further and further from his alliance with Caesar, eventually marrying the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica, one of the boni (" Good Men "), an archconservative faction of the Senate steadfastly opposed to Caesar.

War broke out between Numidia and the Roman Republic and several legions were dispatched to North Africa under the command of the Consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus.

He won with the support of Quintus Caecilius Metellus ( later known as Metellus Numidicus ), who was an inherited patronus.

Although he seems to have had a break with the Metelli as a result of the laws he passed while tribune, the rupture was not permanent, since in 109 BC Quintus Caecilius Metellus took Marius with him as his legate on his campaign against Jugurtha.

Also under Sulla, the number of pontifices was increased to fifteen, the pontifex maximus included, and Sulla nominated Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius as the next holder of the office-the only truly unelected Pontifex Maximus in history, since even the other pontiffs did not get a vote in the matter.

It was only the timely arrival of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius which turned the tide in Pompey's favour.

Despite public knowledge and disapproval of this, Afranius was elected consul in 60 BC, his colleague being Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer.

Pius as a cognomen originated as way to mark a person as especially " pious " in this sense: announcing one's personal pietas through official nomenclature seems to have been an innovation of the late Republic, when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius claimed it for his efforts to have his father, Numidicus, recalled from exile.

Quintus Caecilus Metellus Numidicus refuses and is exiled.

* Battle of the Baetis River: A force of Democratic exiles under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War, Quintus Metellus Pius takes command on behalf of Sulla.

He joints with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is first unsuccessful.

* For the first time in Roman history, both censors are plebeians ( Metellus and Quintus Pompeius ).

For example, Publius Cornelius Scipio received the agnomen Africanus after his victory over the Carthaginian general Hannibal at Zama, Africa ( Africanus here means " of Africa " in the sense that his fame derives from Africa, rather than being born in Africa ); and the same procedure occurred in the names of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus ( conqueror of Numidia ) and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus.

Andriscus, after some early successes, was eventually defeated by the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus at the Battle of Pydna in 148 BC.

Even the wealthy Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus did not hesitate in giving his two oldest boys up for adoption, one to the Cornelii Scipiones ( Scipio Aemilianus, the winner of the Third Punic War ) the other to Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator.

* Quintus Fabius Q. f. Q. n. Maximus Aemilianus, son of Macedonicus.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus

Polybius's surviving histories say little of Varro at Cannae, but since his informants were the other general's son Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and grandsons Scipio Aemilianus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, this is not surprising.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( c. 210 BC – 116 BC / 115 BC ) was a Praetor ( army commander ) in 148 BC, Consul in 143 BC, Proconsul of Hispania Citerior in 142 BC and Censor in 131 BC.

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He was the son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius's wife's sister Licinia Crassa Prima or Major and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, who was in turn the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio and Caecilia Metella, daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus.

* 142 BC-The governor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus attacks the territory of the Vettones, but is not able to take the cities of Numancia and Termancia.

Egnatius was elected Praetor sometime prior to 146 BC, and following this he was assigned the newly created province of Macedonia as its Proconsular governor, replacing Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus who had just finished pacifying the new province.