metellus scipio has been listed as tribune of the "plebs" in 59 bce, but his patrician status argues against his holding the office. it is possible that scipio's 'adoption' into a plebeian "gens" may have qualified him for a tribunate on a technicality. he was possibly curule aedile in 57 bce, when he presented funeral games in honour of his adopted father's death six years earlier. he was praetor, most likely in 55 bce, during the second joint consulship of pompeius and marcus crassus.