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Gaius Caecilius Metellus
Gaius Metellus was a young Roman senator at the time of Sulla's proscriptions in the late 80s BC. Given that his ''cognomen'' is Metellus, his ''gens'' name is likely to have been Caecilius. Nothing about his identity can be established with certainty.〔Robin Waterfield, ''Plutarch: Roman Lives'' (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 481.〕
Plutarch records what seems to have been a famous anecdote about Gaius Metellus as the one who prompted the Roman dictator to post the first proscription lists:
Sulla now devoted himself to butchery, and the city was filled with murders without number or limit, with many people being killed out of private enmity, with whom Sulla had no concerns but permitted it as a favour to his supporters, until one of the young men, Gaius Metellus, ventured in the senate to ask Sulla what end there would be to these evils. … Sulla replied that he did not know yet whom he would spare, and Metellus answered, 'Then tell us whom you intend to punish'. Sulla said that he would do this.〔Plutarch, ''Life of Sulla'' 31; Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland, ''Ancient Rome: From the Early Republic to the Assassination of Julius Caesar'' (Routledge, 2005), pp. 524–525.〕
Plutarch notes, however, that "some say" a Fufidius who was an associate of Sulla raised the question.
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