Ruler · 320 – 283 BCE

Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter

Lived 320 – 283 BCE; politician, military personnel. Roman consul of Ancient Rome, 284 BCE; also in the line of Roman Republic.

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Lived: 320 BCE – 283 BCE; 37 years
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in battle; Wikidata's manner of death

Roman consul

Ancient Rome · the 295th of 845 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480 · read from the line of Roman Republic

291 before

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus285 BCE

Gaius Claudius Canina285 BCE

Manius Curius Dentatus284 BCE

Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter284 BCE

Gaius Servilius Tucca284 BCE

Publius Cornelius Dolabella283 BCE

Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus283 BCE

547 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 284 BCE · under a year · came to it aged 36

Left it: died in battleWikidata's manner of death: death in battle

Also in the line of Roman Republic (289th of 754).

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