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- Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio (c. 95 – 46 BC), often referred to as Metellus Scipio, was a Roman senator and military commander. During the civil war between Julius Caesar and the senatorial faction led by Pompey, he was a staunch supporter of the latter.
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio (c. 95 – 46 BC), often referred to as Metellus Scipio, was a Roman senator and military commander. During the civil war between Julius Caesar and the senatorial faction led by Pompey, he was a staunch supporter of the latter.
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ( c. 128 – 63 BC) was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic. His father Metellus Numidicus was banished from Rome through the machinations of Gaius Marius. He, because of his constant and unbending attempts to have his father officially recalled from exile, was given the agnomen (nickname) Pius. [2]
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio (died 46 bc) was a Roman politician, a leading supporter of his son-in-law Pompey the Great in the power struggle between Pompey and Julius Caesar.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (died c. 63 bc) was a Roman general and statesman who supported Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He earned his surname Pius (signifying filial devotion) by his unremitting efforts in 99 bc to obtain the recall from exile of his father, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus.
- E. Badian
Quintus Caecilius Q. f. Q. n. Metellus Pius Scipio, the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, adopted by Metellus Pius; appointed consul suffectus from the kalends of Sextilis in 52 BC, and a partisan of Pompeius.
In Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, and Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, the consul designate for 69 and a formidable public speaker, Verres managed to recruit a group of defence advocates brimming with nobility and talent.
The senate granted him Syria, whence in 48 he brought two legions to Thessaly; he commanded the centre at *Pharsalus. He escaped to Africa and became supreme commander in the African War. Caesar tried to bribe Scipio before Pharsalus, but detested him, and wrote a bitter passage about his activities in Syria (BCiv.
