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Plautĭus (Plōt- ), i, m.,
I.name of a Roman gens.
1. M. Plautius Hypsaeus, a consul A. U. C. 630, Cic. de Or. 1, 36, 166.—
2. M. Plautius Silvanus, a tribune of the people A. U. C. 666, Ascon. Cic. Corn. p. 79.—
3. L. Plotius Gallus, a rhetorician in the time of Marius, Suet. Rhet. 2.—
4. L. Plotius, a poet who celebrated the Mithridatic war, Cic. Arch. 9, 20.—Hence,
A. Plautĭus (Plōt- ), a, um, adj., of or pertaining to a Plautius (Plotius), Plautian, Plotian: Plautia lex, of the tribune of the people M. Plautius Sylvanus, Ascon. Cic. Corn. p. 79: “ipse (Catilina) lege Plautiā interrogatus est,” Sall. C. 31, 4; Cic. Mil. 13, 35: “Plautia rogatio,” Gell. 13, 3, 5: “Plotia rogatio,” Suet. Caes. 5.—
B. Plautĭānus (Plōt- ), a, um, adj., Plautian: “fabulae,” of the comic poet Plautius, Gell. 3, 3: “de bonis Plotianis,” belonging to a certain Plotius, Cic. Fam. 13, 8, 2.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.8.2
    • Cicero, For Archias, 9.20
    • Cicero, For Milo, 13.35
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.36
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 5
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 13.3.5
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 3.3
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 31
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