Gaius Caecilius Metellus
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Gaius Caecilius Metellus
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Gaius Metellus was a young Roman senator at the time of Sulla's proscriptions in the late 80s BC. Given that his cognomen is Metellus, his gens name is likely to have been Caecilius. Nothing about his identity can be established with certainty. Plutarch records what seems to have been a famous anecdote about Gaius Metellus as the one who prompted the Roman dictator to post the first proscription lists: Plutarch notes, however, that "some say" that it was actually Fufidius, one of Sulla's henchme
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Roman senator in the late 80s BC
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2023-01-16T10:50:11Z
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