Plautius

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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.