METELLUS MACEDONICUS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS

died 115 BC Roman general and statesman. While praetor in 148 Metellus deposed Andriscus, usurper of the throne of Macedonia, with the result that Macedonia became a Roman province. During his consulship of 143, he vanquished the Celtiberians in northern Spain. As censor in 131, he delivered a famous address proposing that all citizens be compelled to marry in order to increase the birth rate. Metellus opposed the agrarian reforms of the Gracchi (the brothers Tiberius Sempronius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus) and participated in the attack in which Gaius Gracchus was killed (121). He erected a splendid colonnade in the Campus Martius and two temples dedicated to Jupiter Stator and Juno.