Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos [1] (c. 135 BC – 55 BC) was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus. He was a Consul in 98 BC, having fought at the Iberian Peninsula against the Celtiberians and the Vacceos, suffering before these ones a memorable defeat.
He married Licinia Prima, who after widowed married the Pontifex Maximus Quintus Mucius Scaevola, of whom she had Mucia Tertia - thus called for having become the third wife of the Triumvir Cnaeus Pompeius Magnum. They had three children:
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer
- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior
- Caecilia Metella, wife of Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther; a notorious debauchee, she was the lover of Publius Cornelius Dolabella and of Aesopus' son, who for her drank a most valuable pearl, from one of her earrings, solved in vinager
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- Manuel Dejante Pinto de Magalhães Arnao Metello and João Carlos Metello de Nápoles, "Metellos de Portugal, Brasil e Roma", Torres Novas, 1998