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Celer and Nepos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

T. P. Wiseman
T. P. Wiseman
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University of Leicester
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Asconius 63 (Clark), commenting on the pro Cornelio: Fuerunt enim plures Quinti Metelli, ex quibus duo consulares, Pius et Creticus, de quibus apparet eum non dicere, duo autem adulescentes, Nepos et Celer, ex quibus nunc Nepotem significat. Eius enim patrem Q.Metellum Nepotem, Baliarici filium, Macedonici nepotem qui consul fuit cum T. Didio, Curio is de quo loquitur accusavit …

Cicero and his scholiast refer to ‘duo Metelli, Celer et Nepos’ but like Asconius do not specify their relationship. Celer himself, followed by Cicero in correspondence with him, calls Nepos his frater, but since both bore the praenomen Q., this cannot be the whole story. Celer's career shows that he was the elder, yet Nepos senior, according to Asconius, entrusted his feud with Curio not to him but to Nepos iunior.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , May 1971 , pp. 180 - 182
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1971

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page 180 note 1 Cic. Brut. 247, ps.-Asc. 187 and 259 Stangl.

page 180 note 2 Cic. Fam. 5. 1. 1, 2. 6–10.

page 180 note 3 Plut. Rom. 10. 2, Cor. 11. 3.

page 180 note 4 Cic. Brut. 305.

page 180 note 5 Indices to Dio, xxxvii and xxxix; cf. headings to Cic. Fam. 5. 1–2.

page 180 note 6 Gesch. Roms 2 ii. 20–1.

page 181 note 1 Cic. Att. 4. 3. 4, dom. 7 and 87, Fam. 5. 3. 1.

page 181 note 2 Cic. Cael. 60, har. resp. 45, cf. Dio 37. 51. 2 .

page 181 note 3 Cic. div. 1. 4 and 99, Rosc. Am. 147, cf. 27.

page 181 note 4 Cic. T.D. 1. 85.

page 181 note 5 Cic. Fam. 5. 2. 6, ‘vestra sorore’; Dio 37. 49. 3 for Celer. Cf. Val. Max. 7. 8. 3 (‘artissimum sanguinis vinculum’).

page 182 note 1 Plut. Cic. 26. 6.

page 182 note 2 Timagenes ap. Strabo 4. 188. In Latomus, think. xxiv (1965), 57Google Scholar, I followed Münzer in attributing the reference to Caepio's grand-daughters—without justification, I now think.

page 182 note 3 Dio fr. 96. 3.

page 182 note 4 Plut. Cato min. 1 (Caepio), 14. 3 (Mucia).