M. Mettius

Family: Roman · Role: ambassador · First appears: The Gallic War, Book I, 47–54

Life events

• Ariovistus seized Caesar’s envoys and cast them into chains.(The Gallic War, Book I, 47–54)
  • With: Ariovistus C. Valerius Procillus
  • “He stopped them when attempting to speak, and cast them into chains.”
• M. Mettius was found and brought back to Caesar.(The Gallic War, Book I, 47–54)
  • With: Caesar
  • “M. Mettius, also, was found and brought back to him Caesar.”

The Gallic War, Book I, 47–54

• commander: Caesar “It seemed therefore most proper to send to him C. Valerius Procillus, the son of C. Valerius Caburus, a young man of the highest courage and accomplishments (whose father had been presented with the freedom of the city by C. Valerius Flaccus), both on account of his fidelity and on account of his knowledge of the Gallic language, which Ariovistus, by long practice, now spoke fluently; and because in his case the Germans would have no motive for committing violence; and as his colleague M. Mettius, who had shared the hospitality of Ariovistus.”
• enemies with Ariovistus “He stopped them when attempting to speak, and cast them into chains.”
• patron: Caesar “M. Mettius, also, was found and brought back to him Caesar.”

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Extracted from the original text of Caesar's Commentaries — The Gallic War and The Civil War. Made with Rho MD.