METELLIUS. Valerius Maximus (fl. first century A.D.) tells the story of Metellius, whose wife was fined her dowry for drinking wine, Factorum dictorumque memorabilium liber VI.3.9.

Alys of Bath says that not even Metellius, who killed his wife with a staff because she drank wine, could have kept her from wine, WBP 460-463. R.A. Pratt suggests that Chaucer may have taken this very different version of the story from John of Wales, Communoloquium sive summa collationum, written in the second half of the thirteenth century. [Valerie]

The name appears medially, WBP 460.