Caecilia Metella Balearica (priestess)
Caecilia Metella, (fl. 1st century BC), elder daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus,[1][2] was a Vestal Virgin and a Priestess of the Goddess Juno Sospita.[3]
During Sulla's lifetime, Metella was the protectress of one Sextus Roscius,[1] defended by Cicero and her nephews Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior in the celebrated defense Pro Roscius. This case made Cicero's reputation, and enabled him to climb to the consulate.
Her date of death is not known, but she appears to have outlived Sulla, who died in 78 BC. Among her sister's six children were the notably iconoclastic Clodia and the patrician-turned-demagogue Publius Clodius.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Treggiari, Susan (2019). Servilia and her Family. Oxford University Press. pp. 20, 221–222. ISBN 9780192564641. Retrieved 28 March 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ De Vit, Vincenzo (1868). Totius latinitatis lexicon, Volume 8 (in Latin). Typis Aldinianis. p. 12.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Schultz, Celia E. (2006). "9. Juno Sospita and Roman insecurity in the Social War". In Schultz, Celia E.; Harvey, Paul B. Religion in Republican Italy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 207–208, 217. ISBN 9781139460675. Search this book on
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