Note 659 — CLII (F I, 9)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
Q. Cæcilius Metellus Numidius, expelled from the senate and banished B.C. 100 for refusing the oath to the agrarian law of Saturninus, but recalled in the following year. Cicero is fond of comparing himself with him. See Letter CXLVII.