. 387.)—2.(Marro), a river on the E. coast of Bruttium,at whose mouth was the town of Metaurum. Metella, Caecilia. 1. Daughter of Met. Mace-donicus [No. 3], married Scipio Nasica (consul111 ). Her grandson was Metellus Scipio[No. 15] (Cic. Brut. 58, 212).—2. Daughter ofMet. Balearicus [No. 5], married App. , and was mother of P. Clodius, Ciceros 813, and finishing with Romanus, the son of j enemy [Claudius, No. 21].—3. Daughter of Met. Constantine Porphyrogenitus,by Bekker, Bonn,1838. Metapontum,theRoman name forthe
. 387.)—2.(Marro), a river on the E. coast of Bruttium,at whose mouth was the town of Metaurum. Metella, Caecilia. 1. Daughter of Met. Mace-donicus [No. 3], married Scipio Nasica (consul111 ). Her grandson was Metellus Scipio[No. 15] (Cic. Brut. 58, 212).—2. Daughter ofMet. Balearicus [No. 5], married App. , and was mother of P. Clodius, Ciceros 813, and finishing with Romanus, the son of j enemy [Claudius, No. 21].—3. Daughter of Met. Constantine Porphyrogenitus,by Bekker, Bonn,1838. Metapontum,theRoman name forthe Greek Meta-pontium(M6Ta7T(iv-riov: MtTarSwrios,Metapontlnus :Torre di Mare), acelebrated Greekcity in the S. ofItaly, on the Ta-rentine gulf, andon the E. coast ofLucania, is said tohave been origin-ally called Meta-bum (MtETaPov). Itwas an Achaeancolony, under thecommand of aleader named Leu-eippus, but pro-bably occupied thesite of an oldercity (which wouldaccount for tradi-tions of its early 963. Edited | Calvus [No. 4] and mother of Lucullus ( Tomb of Caecilia Metella, on the Appian Way. (See Metella, No. 6.) settlement by Pylians of the time of Nestor orby Phocians) which had been destroyed beforethe Achaeans of Sybaris and Crotona founded anew city there about 700 (Strab. pp. 222,264; Lucull. 1).—i. Daughter of Met. Dalmaticus[No. 9], married first to Scaurus, secondly toSulla, who avenged upon Athens an affrontoffered to her by the Athenians (Plut. Sull. 6, METELLUS 557 13, 22, 35; Cic. Scaur. 45).—5. Daughter (pro-bably) of Met. Nepos [No. 14], wife of P. Len-tulus Spinther, the younger, from whom shewas divorced in 45 (Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 339 ; Att. xi. 15, 23. xii. 52, xiii. 7).—6. Daughterof Met. Creticus [No. 16], and wife of Crassus,the son of the triumvir, to whose memory themagnificent tomb on the Appian Way was raised. Metellus, a distinguished plebeian family ofthe Caecilia gens at fiome. 1. L. CaeciliusMetellus, consul 251, carr
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