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Metellus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Metellus , ancient Roman family of the plebeian gens Caecilia. Lucius Caecilius Metellus, d. c.221 BC, consul (251 BC), fought...burning temple of Vesta. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, d. 115 BC, the grandson of Lucius...
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Gaius Marius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...he may have served under Q. Caecilius Metellus Balearicus against the Balearic pirates...ended. Jugurthine War When Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was sent to Africa in 109 to...agitators in Rome, he openly criticized Metellus's conduct of the war. Over Metellus...
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Caius Marius
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...patrician Sylla ( Robert C. Maywood) and Metellus ( Thomas Archer), both of whom had...end, however, after Caius has slain Metellus and Sylla's army is at Rome's gates...s son, Granius (Mr. Smith), for Metellus's daughter, Metella ( Mrs. Rowbotham...
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Scipio
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...escape popular hatred. A descendant of Nasica Serapio was adopted by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (see under Metellus ) and named Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, d. 46 BC He early became a leader of the senatorial conservatives and...
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Pompey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...senate, jealous and ungrateful, had been influenced by the Metellus faction of senatorial extremists, who eventually drove Pompey...leader of the senatorial party. He made Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio his colleague. Caesar broke with the senate and...
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Clodia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...for her beauty; sister of Publius Clodius . She was suspected of murdering her husband, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (see Metellus , family), and she accused her lover, Marcus Caelius Rufus, of trying to murder her. According to tradition...
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Saturninus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...violently opposed to the senatorial party and allied himself with Marius to procure the banishment of Metellus Numidicus (see under Metellus , family), the passage of a grain law, and the establishment of new colonies in Sicily, Achaia, and...
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Cneius Papirius Carbo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Carbo's force deserted. He was defeated at Faventia (present-day Faenza) by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (see under Metellus ) and fled to Africa. He later crossed to Sicily, where he was captured, condemned, and executed by...
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Cornelia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...was reissued the following year under the title Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie . It deals with the story of Cornelia, daughter of Metellus Scipio and wife of Pompey the Great, and her lamentations for her misfortunes.
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in love with Clodia, the "Lesbia" of the poems, who was a member of the old aristocratic Claudian family and the wife of Metellus Celer. For this upper-class sophisticate 10 years older than Catullus, the young poet from Verona was but another liaison...
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