250:. He tried to indict Cicero on charges of murder, but the senate passed an amnesty for the consul and then threatened to declare any potential prosecutor a public enemy. In January 62 BC, Nepos attempted to force through a bill to recall Pompey from the war against Mithridates to assume command of the war against Catiline's remaining forces in Etruria. In doing so, he ignored the compulsory waiting period between a bill's promulgation and assembly of a vote. Nepos likely heard from his brother – Metellus Celer, then proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul, – that Catiline would imminently be defeated by
269:, forced their way to the front and Cato then "brusquely took a seat between Nepos and Caesar them from communicating privately". When Nepos directed the bill to be read, Cato vetoed it; when Nepos started to read it himself, Cato snatched the draft from his hands; when Nepos started to recite it from memory, Thermus put his hand over the Nepos' mouth to stop him from speaking. A fight accordingly broke out in the Forum. In response to the violence, the senate passed a
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During Nepos' consulship, Pompey also sought a military command to resolve a civil war that had then broken out in Egypt. Spinther and Nepos put Pompey in charge of a corn commission to ensure he would be unable to contest
Spinther's attempts to secure for himself the Egyptian command. Nepos may also
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After Pompey's return to Italy near the end of 62 BC, Pompey divorced his wife Mucia. Doing so " substance to reports of her infidelity" and broke Pompey's alliance with Nepos and
Metellus Celer, Mucia's half-brothers. Nepos then served as praetor in 60 BC. During his term, he passed a law
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in 59 BC, Nepos continued in opposition to Pompey and his new allies. Writ large, the alliance between Pompey, Caesar, and
Crassus forced a realignment in Roman politics with many factions shifting to balance against the triumvirs. In the elections for the consulship of 57 BC, Pompey and
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Plutarch then assert that Nepos, Caesar, or both were removed from their offices. This is unlikely; the senate during the republic had no such powers. More contemporaneous sources imply that the senate may have moved to ratify Nepos' departure from the city (tribunes were legally
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which abolished customs duties in Rome and Italy. The move likely was related to reforms, pursued by the senate in the aftermath of the
Catilinarian conspiracy, to buttress support among agricultural exporters and wealthy importers of luxury goods. He shortly thereafter also became an
195:, who was a family rival. The trial was squashed when Curio responded with countercharges and both men backed down. Legal manoeuvres of this sort were common in the late republic and indicate growing factionalism through the 70s BC. Metellus Nepos was a lieutenant (
167:. Returning to Rome in 63 BC, he served as a Pompeian ally in the plebeian tribunate. But after Pompey broke with his family on his return to Italy in 62 BC, Nepos became one of Pompey's opponents, especially after the formation of the so-called
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Catilinarian conspiractors – Nepos supported his cousin Clodius and ran interference. Pompey and Spinther were eventually able to convince Nepos to drop his opposition and had a bill recalling Cicero ratified by the
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forbidden from leaving the city), which Cato likely objected to. The proposal to send Pompey after the
Catilinarians, regardless, became irrelevant when Catiline and his forces were decisively defeated in
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