Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus was a Roman politician of the late second century BC

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus was a son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus. He was probably as aedile for grain purchase in Thessaly and no later than 126 BC, praetor. In the year 123 BC, Metellus was consul Balearicus. As a proconsul in the following two years he had the mandate to subdue the piracy operated inhabitants of the Balearic Islands. For his success, he was honored with a triumph and was given the nickname Balearicus. In the year 120 BC Metellus Balearicus was censor. He had a son, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, the 98 BC Consul, and a daughter, Cecilia Metella, the mother of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher tribunes.