Ethnicity of Mettius

Caesar's negotiators to Ariovistus were Gaius Valerius Troucillus,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Valerius_Troucillus
who was a Helvian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvii
and Marcus Mettius,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Mettius
whose ethnicity is unresolved.

I think he might have been Chattic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatti
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/55551

cf.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/56468

Part of Kuhn's article at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46155
I haven't got around to translating the article yet.


Torsten