Career
Her oldest sister was a Vestal virgin. Metella was married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, although somewhat impoverished, patrician family. She had a reputation of virtue and modesty, allied to an irreproachable conduct as a mother of two boys (Appius and Gaius) and three (or four) girls (Claudia Prima, Claudia Secunda, and Claudia Tertulla - this one known to history as Clodia).
As any other Roman would, she took the dream very seriously and proceeded to clean the temple herself, with the help of the censor Lucius Julius Caesar.
Shortly afterwards, Metella died in childbirth. Her youngest son was to be the notorious Publius Clodius.
