Marcus Junius Mettius Rufus was a

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, who was active during the reign of

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. He was suffect consul in the ''

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'' of April to June 128 with

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as his colleague. In the ''

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'' he is called Marcus Mettius Rufus.

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identified him as the son of

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. In his monograph on polyonymous names of the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Olli Salomies notes that it "has been suggested that he was a Mettius

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by M. Iunius Rufus, prefect of

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in the nineties", but noting that the

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"Rufus" goes with the nomen "Mettius", "there need not be a connection between the prefect and the consul."Salomies, ''Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire'', (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 97

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