"master of the horse") to the dictator, Lucius Veturius Philo, and was elected praetor for the following year, 216 BC.
The lot, however, did not give any military command to Matho, but the jurisdictio inter cives Romanos et peregrines.
After news had been received of the fatal battle of Cannae, Matho and his colleague, the praetor urbanus, summoned the senate to the curia Hostilia to deliberate on what steps were to be taken.
[1] At the expiration of his office, Matho received as propraetor the province of Cisalpine Gaul, in 215 BC, for Livy says (xxiv.
Livy, however, not only makes no mention of Matho's appointment in 215 BC, but expressly states (xxiii.
Either man, but probably the latter, was the father of Marcus Pomponius Matho, plebeian aedile in 206 BC, who was ordered to investigate the complaints of the Locrians against his kinsman Scipio Africanus.