Decius Metellus - Cursus Honorum

Cursus Honorum

• 95 BC: Decius is born.
• Scout commander in the Spanish army of his uncle Metellus Pius, against Sertorius.
• SPQR I: The King's Gambit: Decius uncovers a plot to subvert Lucullus's command in the East, on the eve of his campaign against Mithridates VI of Pontus. In doing so, he befriends Titus Milo, and makes deadly enemies of Clodius, and his sister, Clodia.
• (Elected Quaestor).
• SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy: drawn into Catalina's conspiracy, and works undercover to undermine the conspiracy .
• SPQR III: The Sacrilege: investigates Clodius's invasion of the rites of the Bona Dea and inadvertently uncovers proof of the pact between Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey.
• SPQR IV: The Temple of the Muses: accompanies his relative on a diplomatic mission to Gallic expatriates in Spain, and then to Alexandria to the court of King Ptolemy XII.
• SPQR V: Saturnalia: returning to Rome, commissioned to investigate the murder of his kinsman, Metellus Celer, with Clodia as his primary suspect.
• SPQR VI: Nobody Loves A Centurion: when Clodius is elected tribune, Decius is no longer safe in Rome, and so reluctantly serves as a cavalry troop commander with Caesar's Legio X Gemina at the start of the Gallic Wars, surviving capture by Ariovistus.
• SPQR VII: The Tribune's Curse: Commissioned to track down (and later solve the murder of) the rogue tribune Gaius Ateius Capito, after his sacrilegious cursing of Crassus on his departure for Syria (and his war on Parthia).
• SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance: elected aedile, where he investigates and prosecutes corrupt building practices, and supervises cleaning of the city sewers after a serious flood.
• (Forced to serve a second term as aedile, while his family brokers a compromise between Pompey and the Senate to resolve the worsening gang violence in the city).
• SPQR IX: The Princess and the Pirates: To beef up his military experience, he is given command of a small naval flotilla charged with rooting out piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean; based in Cyprus, he reluctantly accepts the young Cleopatra's aid as one of his ship's captains.
• SPQR X: A Point Of Law: While campaigning for the praetorship in Rome, Decius is accused of murder of a young aspiring politician who accused him of corruption.
• SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius and SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead: elected praetor peregrinus, Decius enjoys a leisurely tour of southern Italy, solving several murders along the way.
• SPQR XIII: The Year of Confusion: an ordinary senator again, Decius is tasked by Caesar with supervising the introduction of the new calendar.