Topic summary
Metellus Scipio
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio.
Political career
Metellus Scipio was probably tribune of the plebs in 59 BC, but this office was usually forbidden to those with patrician status. It is possible that Scipio's adoption into a plebeian gens may have qualified him for a tribunate on a technicality. He may have been aedile in 57 BC though this is not certain; one of the responsibilities of the aediles was organising games and he is known to have presented funeral games that year, in honour of his adopted father (who had died six years earlier).