person
Metellus Numidicus
Metellus
also: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus
Roman statesman and censor (d. c. 91 BC); the speech declaring women a necessary evil that Madách quotes is recorded in Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.6.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Metellus Numidicus the Censor
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (d. c. 91 BC), Roman censor; the speech Madách attributes to him in the Senate, deploring women as a necessary evil, was a famous anecdote in ancient sources (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.6).