18 Facts About Metellus Scipio

Metellus Scipio led troops against Caesar's forces, mainly in the battles of Pharsalus and Thapsus, where he was defeated.

Metellus Scipio's great-grandfather was Scipio Nasica Serapio, the man who murdered Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC.

Metellus Scipio's father died not long after his praetorship, and was survived by two sons and two daughters.

Metellus Scipio was sometimes called "Metellus Scipio", or just "Scipio", after his adoption.

Metellus Scipio married Aemilia Lepida, daughter of Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus, consul in 77 BC, but was not without rival in seeking to marry Aemilia Lepida.

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When [Cato] thought that he was old enough to marry, and up to that time he had consorted with no woman, he engaged himself to Lepida, who had formerly been betrothed to Metellus Scipio, but was now free, since Scipio had rejected her and the betrothal had been broken.

However, before the marriage Metellus Scipio changed his mind again, and by dint of every effort got the maid.

Metellus Scipio first married off the celebrated Cornelia Metella to Publius Crassus, the son of Marcus Licinius Crassus.

Metellus Scipio is placed in the company of Marcus Messalla and Metellus Celer, both future consuls.

Metellus Scipio was probably tribune of the plebs in 59 BC, but his patrician status argues against his holding the office.

Metellus Scipio was praetor, most likely in 55 BC, during the second consulship of Pompeius and Marcus Crassus.

Metellus Scipio became consul with Pompeius in 52 BC, the year he arranged the marriage of his newly widowed daughter to him.

Indisputably aristocratic and conservative, Metellus Scipio had been at least a symbolic counterweight to the power of the so-called triumvirate before the death of Crassus in 53 BC.

Metellus Scipio is known to have been a member of the College of Pontiffs by 57 BC, and was probably nominated upon the death of his adoptive father in 63, and subsequently elected.

Metellus Scipio put a per capita tax on slaves and children; he taxed columns, doors, grain, soldiers, weaponry, oarsmen, and machinery; if a name could be found for a thing, that was seen as sufficient for making money from it.

Metellus Scipio put to death Alexander of Judaea, and was acclaimed Imperator for claimed victories in the Amanus Mountains — as noted disparagingly by Caesar.

In 48 BC, Metellus Scipio brought his forces from Asia to Greece, where he manoeuvred against Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus and Lucius Cassius until the arrival of Pompeius.

Metellus Scipio committed suicide by stabbing himself, so he would not fall into the hands of his enemies.