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.

* 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 ).

In the reign of Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) the Hadrianic border was briefly extended north to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, where the Antonine Wall was built around 142 following the military reoccupation of the Scottish lowlands by a new governor, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

Cáceres as a city was founded as Castra Caecilia by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and started to gain importance as a strategic city under Roman occupation, and remains found in the city suggest that it was a thriving center as early as 25 BC.

Many Roman refugees and deserters joined him, and with these and his Hispanian volunteers he completely defeated several of Sulla's generals ( Fufidius, Domitius Calvinus and to some less-direct extent Thoranius ) and drove Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who had been specifically sent against him from Rome, out of Lusitania, or Hispania Ulterior as the Romans called it at the time.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica-also known as Metellus Scipio, consul 52 BC, adopted son of Metellus Pius, with whom he campaigned against Sertorius.

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* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica ( d. 46 BC )

Quintus Sertorius, a rebellious Roman general, helped by the Lusitanians of Lacobriga ( who had been oppressed under Roman Generals and members of Lucius Cornelius Sulla party ), successfully defeated the Roman army of Caecilius Metellus Pius probably at nearby Monte Molião.

He served under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and Pompey against Sertorius in Hispania ( the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar and Portugal ).

* Servius Sulpicius Galba, curule aedile in 208 BC, and afterwards a pontifex, in the place of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.

* Quintus Fabius ( Q. f. C. n .) Pictor, praetor in 189 BC, received Sardinia as his province, but was compelled by the pontifex maximus to remain at Rome, because he was Flamen Quirinalis ; his abdication was rejected by the senate, which designated him praetor peregrinus.

She was the daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, consul in 95 BC.

* Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus, praetor by 145 BC, consul 142, proconsul in Hispania Ulterior 141 – 140, mentioned as pontifex in 141 ( exact term unknown ).

Quintus Fabius Ambustus ( flourished early 4th century BCE ) was a politician in the Roman Republic, the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus ( pontifex maximus 390 BC ).