person
Lucius Caecilius Metellus
Metellus
also: Metellum
Consul of 251 BC; triumphed over Carthage in the First Punic War and led 120 captured elephants before his chariot.
Reading notes
- On the Shortness of Life §13.8 Metellus
Lucius Caecilius Metellus (cos. 251 BC), who triumphed over Carthage with 120 captured elephants.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.24.4 Metellus
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (consul 109 BC), driven into exile in 100 BC for refusing to swear to a demagogic land law; he bore it with dignity and was recalled by vote of the state, the contrast Seneca draws with Rutilius.