• Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (c. 114 BC – late 50s BC) was a politically active member of the Roman upper class. He was praetor in 74 BC and pontifex...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (c. 104 BC – 59 BC) was a Roman politician who was consul in 60 BC and in the next year opposed Pompey, Caesar, and the...
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  • Celer Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos...
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  • belonged to the Optimates. He was consul in 69 BC alongside Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus. His nickname was Dionysia, after a famous actress. After...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus, born Iunius Silanus was adopted by Quintus Caecilius Metellus, a descendant of the optimate Quintus Caecilius...
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    later Pontifex Maximus. Gaius Caecilius Metellus, a junior senator circa 80 BC. Quintus Caecilius Metellus, surnamed Creticus, consul in 69 BC, triumphed...
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    century BC to honor Caecilia Metella, who was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a consul in 69 BC, and the wife of Marcus Licinius Crassus...
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  • Quintus Marcius Rex, the praetor in 144 BC who constructed the Aqua Marcia. He was elected consul for 68 BC with Lucius Caecilius Metellus. Metellus died...
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  • censor in 102 BC. Lucius had two brothers. One was Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus. Creticus was praetor in 74 BC, consul in 69 BC, and pontifex...
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  • One was Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was praetor in 74 BC and consul in 69 BC. He was pontifex from 73 BC until his death. Creticus was given...
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  • Caecilia Metella Cretica, daughter of the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (see Caecilius Metellus); his mother's tomb is visible on the Appian...
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    in relation to her husband: the name Clodia Metelli, "Clodia [wife] of Metellus," preserves the birth name Clodia and adds her husband's name to specify...
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  • capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia. Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius. Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is installed as...
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    allies. In 69 BC the Romans under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, after the failed attempt of Marcus Antonius Creticus, invaded Crete. The Cretan general...
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  • capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia. Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius. Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is installed as...
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    Lucius Aurelius Cotta. The two generals were Quintus Marcius Rex and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus; they had served as consul in 68 and 69 BC, respectively...
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    military campaign that ended in defeat. A new expedition led by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, and supported by the cities of Gortina (now Gortyn) and...
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  • the Principate. He was consul in AD 7 as the colleague of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus Silanus. Silianus was born the second of three sons of Publius...
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    that happened to many other Cretan cities, when invaded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus in 68 BC. Gortyn continued to rise under Roman rule, and...
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    century, with the consulship of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter in 284 BC. It was however Quintus Caecilius Metellus, consul in 143, who greatly improved...
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  • proconsul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, when the Cretans attempted to obtain better terms from Pompey than they were receiving from Metellus, who was...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus - consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus - consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus - consul Quintus Caecilius...
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  • Beautiful Rat Sunset 10" EP, recounts the story of Verres. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus § Role in Verres's trial Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 67...
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    recycled antiquities like a Roman dedication, in Latin, to Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a Roman proconsul in Greece who was noted for his suppression...
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  • visible on the Appian Way. She was daughter of the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus. They had at least one son Marcus Licinius Crassus (consul...
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  • 49–48: Metellus Scipio 47–46: Sextus Julius Caesar 46–44: Quintus Caecilius Bassus 45: Gaius Antistius Vetus 44: Lucius Staius Murcus 44–43: Quintus Marcius...
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  • children, but more likely he recognised the wisdom of leaving the position to Quintus Junius Blaesus, uncle of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the powerful praetorian...
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  • along the Via Sacra while they were campaigning on behalf of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus’ campaign for the praetorship. Both men had to take refuge...
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  • featuring Senator Decius Metellus. 60 BC: Decius Metellus the Younger accompanies his relative Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus on a diplomatic mission...
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  • Litorius Lucullus Mucianus Quintus Ligarius Marcus Livius Salinator Marcus Lollius Quintus Lollius Urbicus Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter Lucius Pinarius...
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