Mettius Fufetius
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Mettius Fufetius succeeded Gaius Cluilius as king of Alba Longa. In book one of his history of Rome, Livy says that Mettius Fufetius betrays the Romans in battle. For this, he was torn in two by chariots running in opposite directions by the Roman king Tullus Hostilius, who destroyed Alba Longa.
Mettius had an alliance with the Romans while they were rivals of the Alba Longa, but in an important battle he withheld his support. It is for this that he is punished; Vergil later recounts this betrayal and its punishment in the Aeneid
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