Metilius
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.)
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