., or from the new act of settlement four years later, which was final and permanent. […] Metellus Macedonicus (cos. 143) had four consular sons. […] Servilius with better fortune for four years in Cilicia. […] 4 Only four of the consuls of 79–75 B.C. are heard of after 74. […] Four years before, Pompeius had not even been a senator.