Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus was a Roman statesman and general of the second century BC who held the offices of praetor in 148 BC, consul in 143 BC and censor in 131 BC. As praetor he led Roman troops to two victories over the pretender Andriscus, which reduced Macedonia to a Roman province and earned him the agnomen Macedonicus. In 146 BC he defeated the Achaean commander Critolaos at Scarpheia, then served under the consul Mummius in the Achaean War. As consul he campaigned against the Celtiberians in central Hispania during the Numantine War without besieging Numantia itself. He later built the Portico of Metellus in Rome, opposed Tiberius Gracchus, and as censor proposed that marriage be compulsory for citizens. He died in 116 or 115 BC.