Published: 2022-03-31

Metellus Macedonicus ’De prole Augenda and Aulus Gellius’ ‘Attic Nights’ 1,6: the Same, or Two Different Orations?

Łukasz Schreiber
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2022.22.1.02

Abstract

This article examines the passage from Aulus Gellius’ Attic Nights in which he refers to an excerpt from a speech by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who was consul in 109 BC. The passage is a tongue-in cheek laudation of the institution of marriage. In view of numerous similarities due to its references to the mos maiorum and pro-familypolicy in the wide sense of the term, this speech tends to be erroneously ascribed to Metellus Macedonicus. In this article a contrary is presented on the basis of an examination of the biographies of the politicians of the Metellus family.

Keywords:

Aulus Gellius; Q. Metellus Numidicus; Q. Metellus Macedonicus; censor.

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Schreiber, Łukasz. (2022). Metellus Macedonicus ’De prole Augenda and Aulus Gellius’ ‘Attic Nights’ 1,6: the Same, or Two Different Orations?. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 22(1), 25–40. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2022.22.1.02

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