Her father was Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, consul in 119 BC and pontifex maximus circa 114.
Scaurus was a patrician, the princeps senatus (leader of the Senate) and a traditional ally of her family.
Plutarch wrote that it "was thought also that when [Sulla] took the city of Athens, he treated its people more harshly because they had scurrilously abused Caecilia from the walls.
'"[4] While Sulla was devoting a lavish feast in honour of the god Hercules, Caecilia was sick and dying.
[5] Plutarch mentioned that another, unnamed son who died shortly before the death of his mother Caecilia appeared to him in a dream.