Aulus Plautius (Praetor 51 BC)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aulus Plautius (in the sources also Plotius ; * probably shortly after 100 BC; † after 49 BC) was a Roman senator of the late republic .

Aulus Plautius is probably identical with a Plotius , who is mentioned by Appian and Florus as one of the legates of Pompey in the fight against the pirates and who was written in 67 BC. Was in command in Sicily. Accordingly, he must have already been a senator and before 67 BC. Have held the bursary . Plautius is likely to have served under Pompey in the following years as well, since coins minted by him as aedile showing the submission of an Eastern ruler and bearing the inscription Bacchius Iudaeus , his presence with Pompey in Palestine in 63 BC. Suggest.

In 56 BC Aulus Plautius was a tribune of the people . In this office he submitted to the Senate a letter from the fled Egyptian king Ptolemy XII. before who asked to be reinstated by Pompey. Together with Gnaeus Plancius he was 55 or 54 BC. Curular aedile and minted the coins mentioned. 51 BC He held the office of praetor urbanus .

In 49 and 48 Plautius was probably governor of the province of Bithynia et Pontus . Cicero mentions that an acquaintance died after the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC. BC went to Plautius in Bithynia. After that, nothing more has come down to us. However, a message from Cicero might indicate that 47 BC. Chr. Bona Plotiana (former possession of Plotius) were auctioned on indicate that Plautius at the time was no longer alive. It is hardly likely to be equated with 22/20 BC. Acting proconsul in Cyprus , because Plautius must have exercised this office at the unusually old age of over 70 years; but it could have been a son.

The family of Aulus Plautius rose to the senatorial leadership class during the imperial era. His son Marcus Plautius Silvanus also reached the praetur and two grandchildren, Marcus Plautius Silvanus and Aulus Plautius , held their positions in the years 2 and 1 BC. The consulate.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thus the identification of P. Groebe, Zum Seeräuberkriege des Pompeius Magnus (67 BC) , in: Klio 10 (1910), p. 381.
  2. ↑ Appian, Mithridati Wars 95, there with the probably accidental cognomen Varro (Βάρρων).
  3. ↑ Florus 1:41.
  4. ^ Cassius Dio 39, 16, 2.
  5. ^ Cicero , Pro Cn. Plancio 17 ( A. Plotio, ornatissimo homini familiari meo ) and 53.
  6. ↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 5, 15, 1.
  7. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 13, 29, 4.
  8. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 13, 8, 2.
  9. ↑ PIR²P 455.
  10. ↑ AE 1984, 177
  11. ↑ See Stemma 20 in PIR² P, p. 196.
personal data
SURNAME Plautius, Aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plotius, Aulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman senator, praetor 51 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: after 100 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 49 BC Chr.