Quintus Plautius

Quintus Plautius was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate. He was consul ordinarius for the year 36 as the colleague of Sextus Papinius Allenius.^[1] Nothing more is known about his senatorial career.

He was the son of Aulus Plautius suffect consul in 1 BC, and Vitellia, the great-aunt of the future Roman emperor Vitellius. Quintus had an older brother, Aulus Plautius suffect consul in 29 and conqueror of Roman Britain, and a sister who has been identified as the wife of Publius Petronius consul in 19.^[2] Although the name of his wife is not known, Quintus Plautius has been identified as the father of Plautius Lateranus, who was accused of an affair with Valeria Messalina in the 48AD, and was executed in 65AD for involvement in the Pisonian Conspiracy.

References

^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460
^ Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp.38f

Political offices
Preceded by Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, and Aulus Gabinius Secundus as Suffect consuls	Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 36 with Sextus Papinius Allenius	Succeeded by Gaius Vettius Rufus, and Marcus Porcius Cato as Suffect consuls

[1] Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460

[2] Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp.38f

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