Pliny the Elder mentions a meeting between Caesar's predecessor as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, and a king of the Suebi ; which took place during Celer's proconsulship in 62 BC.

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.

War again 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.

He is now exclusively known by his Octavius, a dialogue on Christianity between the pagan Caecilius Natalis and the Christian Octavius Januarius.

According to Sallust, who relates the details of the Jugurthine War between Jugurtha and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus to possess Beja, Beja was the wealthiest warehouse of the kingdom and the center of intense commerce.

99 ) speaks somewhat disparagingly of him, and Cicero, although he admits with some hesitation that Caecilius may have been the chief of the comic poets ( De Optimo Genere Oratorum, I ), considers him inferior to Terence in style and Latinity ( Ad Atticum vii.

The story is probably, like that of the visit of the young Terence to the veteran Caecilius Statius, due to the invention of later grammarians ; but it is invented in accordance with the traditionary criticism ( Horace, Epp.

** Caecilius Statius, Roman comic poet, admirer and imitator of the Greek playwright Menander ( b. c. 219 BC )

* Caecilius Statius, Roman comic poet, admirer and imitator of the Greek playwright Menander ( b. c. 219 BC )

310 in Bordeaux, the son of Julius Ausonius, a physician of Greek ancestry, and Aemilia Aeonia, daughter of Caecilius Argicius Arborius, descended on both sides from established, land-owning Gallo-Roman families of southwestern Gaul.

Caecilius, of Calacte in Sicily, Greek rhetorician, flourished at Rome during the reign of Augustus.

The celebrated Greek rhetorician Caecilius of Caleacte, who flourished in the time of Augustus, was a native of Caleacte, whence he derived the surname of Calactinus.

His original name was Thascius ; he took the additional name Caecilius in memory of the presbyter to whom he owed his conversion.

* On the Style of the Ten Orators ( the lives and a critical examination of the works of the Ten Orators ), the basis of the pseudo-Plutarchian treatise of the same name, in which Caecilius is frequently referred to ;

These historical mysteries are presented as memoirs of fictional Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger ; Milo is a trusted friend of Metellus.

Promagistrates were appointed by senatus consultum ; like all acts of the Roman Senate, these appointments were not entirely legal and could be overruled by the Roman assemblies, e. g., the replacement of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus by Gaius Marius during the Jugurthine War.

Other notable holders of such victory titles include Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who was replaced by Gaius Marius in command-in-chief of the Jugurthine War ; Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, who commanded Roman anti-pirate operations in the eastern Mediterranean ( and was father of Julius Caesar's colleague in his second consulate, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus in 48 BC ), and Marcus Antonius Creticus, another anti-piratical commander ( and father of Caesar's master of the horse, Mark Antony of Egyptian fame ).

* Publius Licinius Crassus Junianus, tribunus plebis in 51 BC, and a friend of Cicero ; during the Civil War he was a partisan of Pompeius, and fought under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio in Africa.

# Remains of Old Latin I: Ennius and Caecilius ( 1935, revised 1956 ; ISBN 0-674-99324-1 )

The slopes of the hill form the traditional gitano quarter of the city ; and on the Sunday following the 1st February each year, are also the location of the Fiesta of San Cecilio, when large crowds gather to celebrate the city's first bishop and Granada's patron saint, Caecilius of Elvira ( San Cecilio ).

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.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus was honest and able as a commander but was buying time in order to maximise his glory when he did actually defeat them.

( In Rome women generally did not have cognomen, their name was just the feminine form of their father's surname, as in Caecilia's case Caecilius ).

In 148 BC, in what the Romans called the Fourth Macedonian War, he was defeated by the Roman praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus ( 148 ) at the Second Battle of Pydna, and fled to Thrace, whose prince gave him up to Rome, thus marking the final end to Andriskos ' reign of Macedonia.

* Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul

** Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War ( b. c. 290 BC )

* 290 BC – Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman statesman

The so-called Sardi Pelliti (" Fur-covered Sardinians ") living in the impervious mountains of the interior resisted the Roman colonization for more than a century, Marcus Caecilius Metellus subduing them only in 127 BC.

* Lucius Caecilius Metellus, Roman consul and general during the First Punic War ( b. c. 290 BC )

* 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.

In 69 BC, the Roman consul Caecilius Metellus defeated the Cretans and conquered Kydonia to which he granted the privileges of an independent city-state.

* 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.

* 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.

* Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter, Roman consul and general ( killed in the Battle of Arretium ) ( b. c. 320 BC )

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.

Statius Caecilius, also known as Caecilius Statius ( c. 220 BC-c. 166 BC ) was a Roman comic poet.

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.

The Jugurthine War had started in 112 BC, but Roman legions under Quintus Caecilius Metellus had been unsuccessful.

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

** Sextus Caecilius Africanus, a 2nd century Roman legal scholar

In the 240s BC, for instance, the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus could not assume his military command, because the pontifex maximus Lucius Caecilius Metellus invoked the prohibition against a Flamen Martialis leaving the city.