Caecilia Metella (daughter Of Metellus Dalmaticus)
Caecilia Metella (died around 80 BC) was a Roman matron at the beginning of the 1st century BC. The daughter of the Pontifex maximus, pontifiex maximus Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, she married two of the most prominent politicians of the period, first the princeps senatus Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (consul 115 BC), Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, then Sulla, Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Life Caecilia belonged to the plebeian family of the Caecilii Metelli, at the time the most important family of the late second century. Her father was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, consul in 119 BC and pontifex maximus ''circa'' 114. Her first marriage was to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (consul 115 BC), Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, an ageing politician at the peak of his power. Scaurus was a Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician, the ''princeps senatus'' (leader of the Roman senate, Senate) and a traditional ally of her family. Caecilia bore Scaurus two children: Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (praetor 56 BC) ...
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