9. M.CaeciliusMetellus, Q. F. Q. N., brother of the two preceding and son of
No. 5, was consul B. C. 115, with M. Aemilius Scaurus, the year in
which his father died. In B. C. 114 he was sent to Sardinia as
proconsul, to suppress an insurrection in the island, which he succeeded in doing, and
obtained a triumph in consequence in B. C. 113, on the same day as
his brother Caprarius. (Vell. 1.11, 2.8; Eutrop. 4.25.)
The annexed coin which bears the legend M. METELLUS Q. F. was
struck by order of the preceding Metellus. The reverse represents the head of an
elephant enclosed in Macedonian shields, and the whole surrounded by a laurel crown: the
elephant has reference to the victory of his great-grandfather in Sicily over the
Carthaginians [No. 1], and the Macedonian shields to the conquest of Andriscus in Macedonia by
his father [No. 5]. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 151.)