Mettia (gens)

Origin

Members

• Publius Mettius, assassinated Gaius Memmius, one of the candidates in the consular elections, on behalf of his allies, Lucius Appuleius Saturninus and Gaius Servilius Glaucia, in BC 100.
• Marcus Mettius, Caesar's legate to the German king Ariovistus in 58 BC, at the beginning of the Gallic War. He was taken prisoner by Ariovistus, but subsequently rescued. A coin depicting the head of Caesar, and inscribed "M. Mettius", probably refers to this event.
• Marcus Mettius Modestus, supposed to have been governor of Egypt at some point prior to the reign of Nero, was the former master of Marcus Mettius Epaphroditus, a Greek grammarian, who had tutored Modestus' son.
• Marcus Mettius M. l. Epaphroditus, a Greek grammarian during the latter half of the first century. He had been a pupil of Archias of Alexandria, and after obtaining his freedom lived at Rome, from the reign of Nero to that of Nerva. He amassed a library of more than thirty thousand volumes, and wrote a number of works concerning grammar, as well as commentaries on Greek literature.
• Mettius Pomposianus, a senator elevated to the consulate by the emperor Vespasian, notwithstanding his claim of royal blood. Domitian, less tolerant of potential rivals, banished him, and subsequently had him put to death.
• Mettius Modestus, consul suffectus in AD 82.
• Marcus Mettius Rufus, brother of the consul suffectus in 82, and father of the consul suffectus in 103. Rufus was governor of Egypt from 100 to 103.
• Mettius Carus, a notorious informer during the reign of Domitian.
• Gaius Trebonius Proculus Mettius Modestus, consul suffectus in AD 103.
• Marcus Junius Mettius M. f. Rufus, consul suffectus in AD 128.