Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, consul 80 BC with Sulla, son of Metellus Numidicus, pontifex maximus, victor with Pompey in the Sertorian War, and the patron-figure of the senatorial Sicily of the 80s and 70s. He died c. 63 BC. He is the Metellus of the consulship of 80 cited in the temple-of-Castor narrative at Verr. 2.1.130; widely invoked as exemplum.