Aulus Plautius - Namesakes

Namesakes

Three other men of the same name are known:

• Aulus Plautius, a tribune of plebs in 70, later the legate of Pompey responsible for Sicily in the war against the pirates. Appian refers to him as Plautius Varus
• Aulus Plautius, a tribune who read a letter from Ptolemy XII of Egypt before the Senate in 56 BC. Urban praetor in 51, later the governor of Bithynia and Pontus.
• Aulus Plautius, suffect consul in 1 BC
• Aulus Plautius (fl. 1st century), probably the son of the conqueror of Britain, and allegedly the lover of Agrippina the younger, who was murdered by Agrippina's son Nero.