person
Titus Plotius Plancus
Plotius Plancus
also: frater, Plancus's brother, T. Plotius Plancus, Munatius noster, T. Munati, T. Munatius
Brother of L. Munatius Plancus; born Munatius, adopted into the Plotia gens as T. Plotius Plancus. Commanded Plancus's advance cavalry in 43 BC and served as envoy between Plancus and Cicero at Rome; later a celebrated rhetorician.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 10.11 §2 sent my brother on ahead with three thousand horse
Plancus's brother, known in the sources as L. Plotius Plancus (born Munatius, adopted into the Plotia gens), commanded the advance cavalry; he later became a notable rhetorician.
- Ad Familiares 10.12 §2 our friend Munatius
T. Munatius (Plotius Plancus), brother of L. Munatius Plancus, then in Rome acting as his brother's political agent and liaison with Cicero and the Senate.
- Ad Familiares 10.15 §3 I sent my brother on 13 May with four thousand horse
Plancus's brother T. Plotius Plancus (born Munatius, adopted into the Plotia gens) commanded his advance cavalry; he recurs as "my brother" throughout this Gallic campaign correspondence.
- Ad Familiares 10.17 §2 required such a citizen as praetor for civic duties
Plancus's brother, sent back to Rome, held a praetorship in 43 BC; with the consuls dead, praetors carried the burden of the city's magisterial business (urbana officia).
- Ad Familiares 10.22 §1 it seemed most convenient to me and to your brother Plancus
The addressee's brother, T. Plotius Plancus (born Munatius, adopted into the Plotia gens), who was at Rome managing his absent brother's interests in the Senate.