3. M.Metilius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 217, brought forward a rogation to deprive Q. Fabius Maximus, then dictator, of the sole control of the legions, and to admit the master of the horse, Q. Minucius Thermus, to an equal share of the command. Metilius was legatus, in B. C. 212, from the senate to the consuls, after some reverses, in the seventh year of the second Punic war. (Liv. 22.25, 25.22.)