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Updated: June 7, 2025
This year it is recorded that the Comitium was covered, and that the Roman games were repeated once by the curule aediles, Quintus Metellus and Caius Servilius; and that the plebeian games were repeated twice by Quintus Mamilius and Marcus Caecilius Metellus, plebeian aediles.
"Guichard's business about the King has been miscellaneous, not worth mention hitherto; but to appearance was well done. 'A dexterous man, that Quintus Icilius the Centurion! observed Friedrich. 'Ah, yes: but excuse me, your Majesty, his name was Quintus Caecilius, said Guichard.
Caecilius Metellus, son of the Metellus whom Marius had superseded in Africa, had been consul with Sylla in 80 B.C. He was now serving in Spain against Sertorius, and was being gradually driven out of the peninsula. Lutatius Catulus was a proud but honest patrician, with the conceit of his order, but without their vices.
Thus it happened that, while this period exhibits poets who devoted themselves specially to comedy, such as Plautus and Caecilius, it presents none who cultivated tragedy alone; and among the dramas of this epoch known to us by name there occur three comedies for one tragedy.
Quintus Caecilius, the consul, received the army from Caius Nero; Lucius Veturius received his from Quintus Claudius the propraetor, filling it up with new-raised soldiers, whom he had himself enlisted.
The army of Quintus Caecilius Bassus, a man indeed without any regular appointment, but a brave and eminent man, is vigorous and victorious. The army of Deiotarus the king, both father and son, is very numerous, and equipped in our fashion. Moreover, in the son there is the greatest hope, the greatest vigour of genius and a good disposition, and the most eminent valour.
Still less are we able to form a special opinion as to the third and last for though Ennius wrote comedies, he did so altogether unsuccessfully comedian of note in this epoch, Statins Caecilius. He resembled Plautus in his position in life and his profession.
The celebrated Latin comic poet Statius Caecilius, who died in 586, was a manumitted Insubrian; and Polybius, who visited these districts towards the close of the sixth century, affirms, not perhaps without some exaggeration, that in that quarter only a few villages among the Alps remained Celtic. The Veneti, on the other hand, appear to have retained their nationality longer.
They made excellent mercenaries, but shunned either war or commerce with the neighbouring peoples, and the only excuse for Roman aggression was that a small proportion of the peaceful inhabitants had lent themselves to piratical pursuits. The expedition was led by the consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus and resulted in a facile conquest.
Verona, the poet's birthplace, "Sweet Sirmio," his home on the long narrow peninsula that cleaves Garda's "limpid lake," Brescia, "below the Cycnaean peak," the "dimpling waters" of heavenly Como, and the estate of Caecilius; all were familiar to him.
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