to that of the dictator, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus. In 212, he was the senate's legate to the consuls. He was probably the author of the lex Metilia de fullonibus, a law regulating the materials used by fullers. Titus Metilius Croto, legate of the praetor Appius Claudius Pulcher in 215 BC, sent to lead the survivors of Cannae to Sicily. Publius Metilius Sabinus Nepos, consul suffectus in AD 91. Publius Metilius Nepos, consul suffectus in AD 103. Marcus Atilius M. f. Metilius Bradua, consul in AD 108, served at various times as governor of Roman Britain, Germania Superior or Germania Inferior, and Africa Proconsularis, under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Publius Metilius P. f. Secundus, consul suffectus in AD 123. Marcus Atilius M. f. M. n. Metilius Bradua Caucidius Tertullus Claudius Atticus Vibullius Pollio Gauidius Latiaris Atrius Bassus, governor of Africa Proconsularis under the emperor Antoninus Pius. Marcus Sedatius C. f. Severianus Julius Acer Metillius Nepos Rufinus Tiberius Rutilianus Censor, consul suffectus in AD 153. Marcus Metilius P. f. Aquillius Regulus Nepos Volusius Torquatus Fronto, consul in AD 157. Footnotes See also List of Roman gentes References Bibliography Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita (History of Rome). Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia. Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis Historia (Natural History). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897). Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898). T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952). A. R. Birley, The Roman government of Britain, Oxford University Press, 2005. Roman gentes