Metellus
4. M. Caecilius Metellus, brother of Nos. 2 and 3, was plebeian aedile in B. C. 208, the same year in which his brother Quintus was curule aedile, and praetor urbanus B. C. 206, during the consulship of Quintus. In the following year he was one of the ambassadors sent to king Attalus, and brought to Rome the sacred stone, which was regarded as the mother of the gods. (Liv. 27.36, xxviii, 10, 29.11.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.