Lucius Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus
Roman consul in 119 BCE
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursHe was probably elected censor in 115 BC. Attribution of which Caecilius Metellus was elected censor in that year is disputed: Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951) believes it was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus; Ernst Badian, however, believes that the engraver made a mistake, and that it is more likely that Delmaticus served as censor in that year.
He was later elected pontifex maximus, in place of Publius Mucius Scaevola, some time before December 114 BC. During his pontifical tenure, he was judge in a trial of three Vestal Virgins for unchastity, of which one was convicted. The acquittal by the pontiffs of two of the vestals was overturned the next year when they were convicted and put to death by a special tribunal convened under Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla.
His replacement as pontifex maximus was elected in 103 BC, indicating that Delmaticus likely had died by that time.
Children
He was the father of:
- Lucius Caecilius Metellus
- Marcus Caecilius Metellus
- Caecilia Metella, wife of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and later Sulla.