Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (b. c. 100 BC or 98 BC - d. 46 BC) was a Roman politician and general.
Born Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio and Licinia Crassa. He was adopted by his uncle by marriage and father's second cousin Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius. He was tribune in 59 BC and became consul with Pompey the Great in 52 BC. During Caesar's civil war, as an Optimate, he served the party of Pompey and fought against Caesar and Marcus Antonius. In 49 BC he was sent as proconsul to Syria and the following year he took part in the great Battle of Pharsalus, where he commanded the center of the Republican battleline. After Pharsalus he fled to Africa were he commanded an army with Cato the Younger, losing in the Battle of Thapsus. After the defeat he tried to escape but was cornered by the fleet of Publius Sittius when he wrecked the ship as he tried to escape to the Iberian Peninsula, to continue to fight from there. He committed suicide by stabbing himself so he would not fall at the hands of his enemies. He married Aemilia Lepida, daughter of Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus (son of the Censor Marcus Livius Drusus and wife Cornelia Scipio and adopted by Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus) and wife Claudia (sister of Appius Claudius Pulcher (Senior)), and was the father in law of Pompey the Great, married to his daughter Cornelia Scipio, called Quinta Pompeia for being his fifth wife. They were also the parents of Lucius Caecilius, born c. 75 BC, father of Lucius Caecilius, born c. 45 BC, father of Lucius Caecilius, born c. 15 BC.
[edit] Further reading
- Manuel Dejante Pinto de Magalhães Arnao Metello and João Carlos Metello de Nápoles, "Metellos de Portugal, Brasil e Roma", Torres Novas, 1998
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