Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BC)

Lucius Caecilius Metellus († 221 BC) was in the year 251 and 247 BC Consul of the Roman Republic.

Lucius Caecilius Metellus defeated as consul in Sicily the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal, who had attacked him in Panormus, and captured the elephants, which he BC in Rome in triumph flaunt turned 250. They were regarded as a symbol since the Metelli. In the year 249 BC, he was master of the dictator Aulus Atilius equitum Caiatinus. In 247 BC he was again as consul in Sicily active and besieged Lilybaeum. 241 BC he saved the Palladium from the temple of Vesta and blind allegedly doing. 224 BC Lucius Caecilius Metellus stopped a dictator from the elections ( dictator comitiorum habendorum causa ) from. He was pontiff and by 243 BC until his death in 221 Pontifex Maximus.