Metilius
- a Roman family name: M. Metilius, Liv. 5, 11.
- —Hence, Meti-lius, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Metilius: Metilia lex, Plin. 35, 17, 57, § 197.
1. Sp. Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 416. He brought forward a rogation for fresh assignments of the public land to the commons, but was foiled in his attempt by his colleagues in the tribunate. (Liv. 4.48.)
2. M. Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 401, when he impeached two of the consular tribunes of the preceding year, and resisted the levying of the war-tax (tributum) because the patricians usurped the rents of the demesne-land. (Liv. 5.11, 12.)
3. M. Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 217, brought forward a rogation to deprive Q. Fabius Maximus, then dictator, of the sole control of the legions, and to admit the master of the horse, Q. Minucius Thermus, to an equal share of the command. Metilius was legatus, in B. C. 212, from the senate to the consuls, after some reverses, in the seventh year of the second Punic war. (Liv. 22.25, 25.22.)
4. T. Metilius Croto, legatus, in B. C. 215, from the praetor Appius Claudius Pulcher to the legions in Sicily. (Liv. 23.31.) [W.B.D]