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Aulus Plautius

Tribune of the plebs in 70 BCE

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  1. 70 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Carried, with Caesar's support, a law to restore citizenship to followers of Lepidus who had fled to Sertorius (a). Possibly the author of a Lex Plotia Agraria (b; but see 89, Tribunes of the Plebs; Niccolini, FTP 436), and also of the Lex Plautia de vi (c).

    Different dates have been suggested for the law of Plautius by Mommsen (77), Rotondi (73), Niccolini (69), E. Meyer, Denter, and Kübler (70): see FOR 3.25, note 4, where discussions are cited. The decisive points are: first, it must be placed in or after Caesar's military tribunate (71) and before his quaestorship (69; Suet. Iul. 5); second, it cannot be placed in the same year as the Lex Antonia de Termessensibus, when all the Tribunes are known; and third, as a tribunician bill it should probably follow the restoration of the powers of the Tribunes in 70. The Lex Antonia is excluded from 71 and 69 by the names of known Tribunes, and should probably be later than 70 in any case. The conditions of the problem are best met by dating the Lex Plautia in 70, the Lex Antonia in 68, while Caesar's military tribunate has been dated on other grounds to 71 and his quaestorship to 69 (see L. R. Taylor, CPh 36 [1941] 121, note 32).

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Suet. Iul. 5; Gell. 13.3.5; Dio 44.47.4; cf. FOR 3.25, and 112
      • (b) Cic. Att. 1.18.6
      • (c) Cic. Cael. 70; Mil. 35; Har. Resp. 15; Fam. 8.8.1; QF 2.3.5; Att. 2.24.4; Sall. Cat. 31.4; Ps.-Sall. In Cic. 2.3; Ascon. 55 C; Quintil. Inst. Or. 9.3.56; Dig. 41.3.33.2; Ind. 2.6.2; Schol. Bob. 84 Stangl; see Niccolini, FTP 252f.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Manlius Torquatus (pr. 70) (1 year; raw 1.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 70 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Antistius Vetus (pr. 70) (1 year; raw 1.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 70 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Calpurnius Piso (1 year; raw 1.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 70 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sicinius (1 year; raw 1.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 70 BCE (Quaestor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (1 year; raw 1.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 70 BCE (Quaestor)

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No family relations recorded.