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.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( b. c. 210 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 ).

His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.

* In Britain, Quintus Veranius Nepos becomes governor in place of Aulus Didius Gallus.

The author of the abridged life of Cato which is commonly considered as the work of Cornelius Nepos, asserts that Cato, after his return from Africa, put in at Sardinia, and brought the poet Quintus Ennius in his own ship from the island to Italy ; but Sardinia was rather out of the line of the trip to Rome, and it is more likely that the first contact of Ennius and Cato happened at a later date, when the latter was Praetor in Sardinia.

However, he learned to read French, German, Polish, and Italian, and devoted himself to intense study of several military authors including Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Nepos, Julius Caesar, and Charles XII.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior, consul 57 BC

Her mother was a Licinia that divorced her father to marry Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in a scandal mentioned by several sources.

Quintus Varius Nepos was a military tribune for LEGIO IV at one point.

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* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos

Quintus Veranius Nepos ( d. 57 ) was a distinguished general to whom the Greek philosopher Onasander dedicated his Strategikos, a book on military tactics.

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It is dedicated to Quintus Veranius Nepos, consul in AD 49, and legate of Britain.