Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (consul 98 BC)
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (c. 135 BC – 55 BC) was a senator and consul. Metellus Nepos was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus. He served as praetor some time before the year 100 BC and possibly as aedile c. 104 BC.He was elected consul in 98 BC with Titus Didius as his colleague. During his consulship, he brought legislation, the leges Caeciliae-Didiae, which required bills brought before the assemblies to have only one topic and mandated that three market days must elapse between a bill's presentation and a vote thereon. He fought in the Iberian Peninsula against the Celtiberians and the Vaccaei, suffering before these a memorable defeat.Metellus Nepos married Licinia Prima, after she had divorced the Pontifex Maximus Quintus Mucius Scaevola, with whom she had a daughter Mucia Tertia.