Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter
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Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter (b. c. 320 BC) was a Roman Republican Consul in the year 284 BC.
Very little is known about Metellus Denter, save that he led an army against the Senones led by Britomaris in the Battle of Arretium. He was either the son or the nephew of Quintus Caecilius, and the first in which the cognomen Metellus appears linked to the gentilic nomen Caecilius, from which it goes for ever unseparable. On him starts intertwined their genealogical deduction.
There is some controversy as to the date of Metellus Denter's death, with some sources claiming he died as Consul in 284 BC in the Battle of Arretium, whereas others have him dying the year after, as Praetor, in the next battle against the Senones. This has been disputed in that it was not customary for a Pro-Consul to be elected Praetor in the year after his Consulship, especially if he had been defeated in battle.
He was the father of Lucius Caecilius Metellus.
[edit] External links
- JSTOR: Classical Quarterly: New Series, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Nov., 1972), pp. 309-325
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 993 (v. 1)
[edit] Further reading
- Manuel Dejante Pinto de Magalhães Arnao Metello and João Carlos Metello de Nápoles, "Metellos de Portugal, Brasil e Roma", Torres Novas, 1998
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