person
Titus Munatius Plancus Bursa
Plancus's brother
also: fratre tuo, fratris, brother of Plancus, T. Munatius Plancus
Younger brother of Lucius Munatius Plancus; tribune of the plebs in 52 BC and a supporter of Clodius, later a Caesarian. In Fam. 10.6 Cicero mentions him alongside Furnius as a positive influence available to counsel his brother.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 7.2 §2 Bursa
T. Munatius Plancus Bursa, tribune in 52 BC and a partisan of Clodius and the rioting mob; Cicero prosecuted him for public violence (de vi) in 51 BC and secured his conviction. Marius had congratulated Cicero on the verdict.
- Ad Familiares 9.10 §2 Bursa Plancus may be left without anyone he can take his lessons from
T. Munatius Plancus Bursa, tribune in 52 BC, had incited the riots after Clodius's death and was prosecuted and convicted by Cicero, becoming a personal enemy; pardoned by Caesar, he was back in Rome. Cicero jokes that he must not let the grammarian Nicias be condemned, lest the ill-educated Bursa lose his only available teacher.
- Ad Familiares 12.18 §2 at our friend Caesar's games I watched T. Plancus
At Caesar's victory games of 46 BC; T. Plancus is most plausibly T. Munatius Plancus Bursa, the disgraced ex-tribune whom Cicero had once prosecuted, now restored under Caesar, so that watching him is itself part of the new order Cicero finds galling.
- Sixth Philippic §10 the man who set fire to the curia
T. Munatius Plancus Bursa, tribune of 52 BC, was condemned (with Cicero's help) for his part in the riots in which Clodius's partisans burned the senate-house at his funeral. Cicero notes the irony of Lucius Antonius despising even him.