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Me'ttius Pomposia'nus

a senator in Vespasian's reign, whom the emperor raised to the consulate, although Mettius was reported to have a royal nativity. Domitian afterwards banished and put him to death. (Suet. Vesp. 14, Dom. 10, 20 ; D. C. 67.12; Victor, Ep. 9.)

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