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| | Lucius Caecilius Metullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Lucius Caecilius Metellus, died 221 BC Roman general during the First Punic War (264—241 BC). |
 | | As consul in 251, Metellus decisively defeated the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal at Panormus (now Palermo, Sicily) by panicking the enemy's elephants. |
 | | Caecilius Metellus gave the funeral oration (in 221 BC) for his father, L. Caecilius Metellus, who had been a pontifex, twice consul, dictator, master of horse, quindecimvir for the distribution of land; he was the first man to lead elephants in a triumphal procession, in the first Punic war. |
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