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Mettius Geminius

or GEMINUS, was commander of the cavalry of Tusculum in the last war between Rome and the Latin league, B. C. 340. He challenged T. Manlius, son of the consul T. Manlius Torquatus, and was slain by him in the combat. (Liv. 8.7; V. Max. 2.7.6.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.