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	Caecilius Metellus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucius Caecilius Metellus, consul 251 BC and 247 BC, died 221 BC, pontifex maximus
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus - eldest son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus, consul in 206 BC.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus - second son of Calvus, he was the leader of the conservative faction of the senate and a bitter enemy of Gaius Marius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caecilius_Metellus (737 words)

	CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, BARON METCALFE - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, BARON METCALFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lucius CAECILIUS METELLUS, possibly son of (i), when the disastrous news of the battle of Cannae (216) reached Rome, proposed to a number of young nobles that they should leave Italy and offer their services to some foreign ruler, but they were prevented by the threats of the younger Scipio from carrying out their purpose.
		Metellus refused and completed the conquest of the island, which was annexed to Cyrene and became a Roman province.
		Metellus naturally joined the senatorial party in their opposition to Pompey, and had the satisfaction of preventing the ratification of what he had done in Asia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/METCALFE_CHARLES_THEOPHILUS_METCALFE_BARON.htm (3646 words)

	Battle of Thapsus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conservative Republican Army, led by Marcus Porcius Cato, the younger and Quintus Caecillius Metellus Scipio clashed with the forces of Julius Caesar, who eventually won the battle.
		The conservatives, led by Metellus Scipio, could not risk the loss of this position and were forced to accept battle.
		Metellus Scipio's army circled Thapsus in order to approach the city by its Northern side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Thapsus (663 words)

	Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236-184) : Epilogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Scipio Asiaticus, either voluntarily - like his brother - or forcibly (Livy's confused account of the proceedings claim that he was successfully prosecuted after Africanus's death) retired from politics shortly after the death of his brother.
		Scipio's grandson by adoption, the son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, was Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantius.
		Scipio's younger daughter Cornelia was the mother of the Grachii brothers, whose actions were to irrevocably change the face of Roman politics.
	www.fenrir.dk /history/bios/scipio/epilogue.php (826 words)

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		In the battle, Scipio defeated the Carthaginian forces and so severely defeated the forces of the Carthaginian ally King Syphax of Numidia that Scipio was able to expel Syphax's forces from the capital of Cirta with a force of 3 cohorts (about 1650 men).
		They were treated badly by their conqueror, P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, who completely destroyed the city in the fashion of Carthage and sold the entire population into slavery.
		Metellus did this to prevent Marius from becoming consul, as he did not think Marius could make it from Africa to Rome in time to contest the election.
	www.novaroma.org /camenaeum/RomanTimeline.txt (25003 words)

	AllRefer.com - Scipio (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Publius was the father of the conqueror of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus Major.
		Africanus Major's wife was the sister of Aemilius Paullus, his daughter Cornelia was the mother of the Gracchi, and his eldest son was the adoptive father of Scipio Africanus Minor.
		In 52, Pompey made Scipio his colleague in the consulship, and Scipio threw all his influence against Julius Caesar.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Scipio.html (454 words)

	Rome: Utica - TV.com
		Metellus Scipio was slaughtered - along with 10,000 troops - while attempting to surrender in the aftermath of the Battle of Thapsus.
		It was the city in which the forces of Cato the Younger were stationed, and where Cato commited suicide upon hearing of the defeat of the legions of Metellus Scipio at Thapsus.
		Upon hearing that Metellus Scipio and his legions had fallen, Cato the Younger - who was commanding the forces at Utica - committed suicide, and was mourned by Caesar.
	www.tv.com /rome/utica/episode/291020/summary.html (675 words)

	Plutarch's Lives - Chapter 50.
		Metellus now seeing the place clear, and all the adverse party fled out of the forum, thought he might easily carry his point; so he commanded the soldiers to retire, and recommencing in an orderly manner, began to proceed to passing the decree.
		After this Scipio, Hypsaeus, and Milo, stood to be consuls, and that not only with the usual and now recognized disorders of bribery and corruption, but with arms and slaughter, and every appearance of carrying their audacity and desperation to the length of actual civil war.
		But Scipio out of pride rejected this counsel, and wrote a letter to Cato, in which he reproached him with cowardice; and that he could not be content to lie secure himself within walls and trenches, but he must hinder others from boldly using their own good-sense to seize the right opportunity.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/PlutarchsLives/chap50.html (14548 words)

	Caecilius Metellus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Caecilii Metellii was one of the most important and wealthiest families in the (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman (A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch) Republic.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus, consul 206 BC Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus - eldest son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus, consul in 206 BC.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, consul 57 BC Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica - AKA Scipio Metellus, consul 52 BC, adopted son of Metellus Pius, with whom he campaigned against Sertorius.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caecilius_metellus.htm (915 words)

	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Metellus was adopted by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius.
		His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the poet's own day, was the national epic until it was eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid in the 1st...
		The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio earned his nickname Africanus by defeating Hannibal, Carthage's best general, at the battle of Zama in 202 BC (see Hannibal).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052314 (555 words)

	Learn more about Julius Caesar in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Instead, Pompey married Cornelia Metella, the daughter of Metellus Scipio, one of Caesar's greatest enemies.
		The Optimates, including Metellus Scipio and Cato the younger, fled to the south, not knowing that Caesar had only his Tenth Legion with him.
		He quickly gained a significant victory at Thapsus in 46 BC over the forces of Metellus Scipio (who was killed in battle) and Cato the Younger (who committed suicide).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /j/ju/julius_caesar.html (4185 words)

	Wargames Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Scipio had sent word to Juba requesting assistance and he answered by leading a force of three Legions, 800 cavalry with bridles, a large force of Numidian light cavalry and light infantry, and 30 elephants.
		Scipio and Labienus followed and were constantly attacking Caesar’s foragers and impeding the speed of his march.
		Scipio drew part of his army up in front of the fieldworks that were under construction.
	www.wargamesjournal.com /ancients/thapsus_2005.asp (2492 words)

	METELLUS - Online Information article about METELLUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		foreign ruler, but they were prevented by the threats of the younger Scipio from carrying out their purpose.
		Metellus received a splendid triumph and the title of Numidicus.
		Metellus naturally joined the senatorial party in their opposition to Pompey, and had the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/METELLUS.html (2139 words)

	Metellus
		Metellus, ancient Roman family of the plebeian gens Caecilia.
		He was pontifex maximus (from 243) and was said to have been blinded (241) in rescuing the Palladium from the burning temple of Vesta.
		115 B.C., the grandson of Lucius Caecilius Metellus, was an important general in the final conquest of Greece (146).
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0832896.html (497 words)

	Ancient Coin History - 47 B.C. - Roman Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Notes: Scipio was Consul, 52 B.C. Imperator, 49 B.C. Adopted Son of Metellus Pius; Father-in-Law of Pompey the Great.
		Infamously, Scipio introduced the legislation into the Senate demanding that Caesar disband his legions and relinquish his command in Gaul (Jan. 7, 49 B.C.).
		Reverse: METEL PIVS SCIP IMP, trophy flanked by lituus and jug.
	www.ancientcoinhistory.com /roma_47_bc.htm (963 words)

	Scipio Indiana Local Business Search - MainStreetPages.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Publius Cornelius Scipio was born at Rome either in 236 or 235 (all dates are BC), a scion...
		Scipio Africanus Major (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus)sĬp'ēō ăfrĬkā'nes, 236-183 BC, Roman general, the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic Wars.
		Publius Cornelius Scipio, The Elder, was a Roman general who fought the Carthagian armies in Spain and defeated...
	mainstreetpages.com /City.cfm/l/Scipio/st/IN (649 words)

	AllRefer.com - Metellus (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		B.C., the grandson of Lucius Caecilius Metellus, was an important general in the final conquest of Greece (146).
		For his adopted son, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, see under Scipio.
		A great-grandson of Metellus Macedonicus was Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, d.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Metellus.html (560 words)

	Ancient Rome From the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D By Robert F. Pennel (1890)- Chapter 34 from Nalanda Digital ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Many Roman residents in the province came to him, indignant at Metellus Scipio's promise to Juba to give the province to him in case of success.
		Scipio was intercepted in his flight and slain.
		QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS belonged to the illustrious family of the Scipios by birth, and to that of the Metelli by adoption.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/ancrome/chapter34.html (1667 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 525 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		143, one of whom married C. Servilius Vatia, and was by him the mother of P. Servilius Vatia Isauricus, consul in 79, and the other P. Corneliua Scipio Nasica, consul in 111, and was the grandmother of Q. Metellus Pius Scipio, consul in 52.
		The daughter of L. Caeciiius Metellus Calvus, consul in b.
		142, and the brother of Metellus Nu-midicus, consul in 109, was married to L. Licinius Lucullus, praetor in 103, and was by him the mother of the celebrated Lucullus, the conqueror of Mithridates.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0534.html (1010 words)

	The First Triumvirate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ironically as consul, Pompey became a supporter of Metellus Pius Scipio, the adopted Cornelian son of Metellus Pius.
		Soon after Metellus Pius Scipio was rescued from an involved lawsuit by Pompey, Pompey married Cornelia, the daughter of Metellus Scipio and the widow of Publius, son of Crassus, who had been killed on his father's campaign in Parthia.
		In successive years Pompey was elected as sole consul and then elected as consul with Metellus Scipio as his colleague.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/the_first_triumvirate.htm (2069 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius
		After the murder, Gnaeus and his brother Sextus joined resistance against Caesar in the Africa provinces.
		Together with Metellus Scipio, Cato the younger and other senators, they prepared to oppose Caesar and his army to the end.
		Caesar won the first battle at (Thapsus) in 46 BC, against Metellus Scipio and Cato, who committed suicide.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/g/gn/gnaeus_pompeius.html (386 words)

	Julius Caesar: the African campaign
		Here it is difficult to say whether Caesar was in a jesting spirit making a mock of the Scipio in command of the enemy, or whether he was quite seriously trying to appropriate the prophecy for himself.
		Scipio was encouraged by these successes to risk a decisive action.
		On this occasion Juba, the son of the king and a mere infant, was carried in the triumphal procession, and indeed he was the most fortunate of captives, since instead of growing up as a barbarous Numidian he won a place for himself in the end among the most learned historians of Greece.
	www.livius.org /caa-can/caesar/caesar_t11.html (1406 words)

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		Quinctus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio was the bluest-blooded aristocrat in Rome in 50 BC, so he could not tolerate the pretensions of what political rival who claimed to be descended from Venus?
		Metellus Pius Scipio's daughter Caecilia was unlucky in love.
		Metellus Pius Scipio was not so lucky in war either.
	www.speakeasy.org /~bwduncan/cqd314.txt (3153 words)

	Consuls of the Roman Republic
		Scipio Calvus were both killed there in 211.
		Scipio Africanus Aemilianus, adopted as a grandson of Scipio Africanus, accompanied by the Greek historian Polybius.
		Metellus Pius Scipio (Consul with Pompey in 52), who fled there after Pharsalus.
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	All words on Caecilius Metellus
		Afterwards, Saturninus has is revenge and forces him to swear the acceptance of the agrarian law that entitled Marius' veterans to farmlands.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos son of Balearicus, he was elected consul in 98 BC.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica, aka Scipio Metellus, consul 52 BC, adopted son of Metellus Pius, with whom he campaigned against Sertorius.
	www.allwords.org /ca/caecilius-metellus.html (941 words)

	Scipio
		Scipio, ancient Roman family of the Cornelian gens.
		In 52, Pompey made Scipio his colleague in the consulship, and Scipio threw all his influence against Julius
		Metellus - Metellus, ancient Roman family of the plebeian gens Caecilia.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0844074.html (401 words)

	Cato the Younger - Plutarch's Lives
		Then going directly to Metellus and CÃ¦sar, he sat himself down between them, to prevent their talking to one another, at which they were both amazed and confounded.
		After this Scipio, HypsÃ¦us, and Milo, stood to be consuls, and that not only with the usual and now recognized disorders of bribery and corruption, but with arms and slaughter, and every appearance of carrying their audacity and desperation to the length of actual civil war.
		Scipio, having taken upon him the command, presently resolved, at the instigation of Juba, to put all the inhabitants of Utica to the sword, and to raze the city, for having, as they professed, taken part with CÃ¦sar.
	www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/catoyounger.htm (15351 words)

	As brilliant as ever \| SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance (Spqr) \| John Maddox Roberts ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Decius Quintus Caecilius Metellus is back for his eighth installment and JMR doesn't disappoint.
		It's the interregnum of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica and our erstwhile hero is three months into his first aedileship having returned from Gaul from his previous outing with Julius Caesar.
		While the main characters are not as strongly created as those in Lindsey Davis' somewhat similar mystery series, set later during the Roman Empire, the author's wryly humorous reinterpretations of Roman history and the figures who shaped it never fail to entertain.
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