Lucius Caecilius Metellus (consul 251 BCE)

Lucius Caecilius Metellus was a Roman commander of the First Punic War, consul in 251 and 247 BCE. In 250 BCE, as proconsul, he defeated the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal outside Panormus in Sicily, throwing his war elephants into confusion with missiles and capturing many of them for his triumph at Rome. He later became pontifex maximus and was said to have been blinded while rescuing the Palladium from a fire in the Temple of Vesta.