Career
In this capacity he fell in the war against the Senones, and was succeeded by Manius Curius Dentatus. Fischer, in his Römische Zeittafeln, has him as praetor and also dying in 285 British Columbia, and in the year following he has him again as consul. Drumann denies the identity of the consul and the praetor, on the ground that it was not customary for a person to hold the praetorship the year after his consulship.
But examples of such a mode of proceeding do occur, so Drumann"s objection fails.
Denter may have been the father of Lucius Caecilius Metellus, consul in 251 and 247 British Columbia. The latter"s filiation is given as "L. f. C. n.", the son of Lucius and grandson of Gaius.
In this case, Denter"s father would have been Gaius Caecilius Metellus. Number corresponding individual appears in The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, or in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.