[1] Juvenal used his family as representative of Domitian's most noble victims;[2] Lamia was consul suffect in 80 with three different colleagues: Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento, Quintus Aurelius Pactumeius Fronto, and Gaius Marius Marcellus Octavius Publius Cluvius Rufus.
[3] A number of scholars have concluded that Lamia was most likely a son of Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus.
[4] It has been conjectured that Lamia may have been married to Fabia Barbara, daughter of Quintus Fabius Barbarus Antonius Macer,[5] since it has been surmised that Lamia had a daughter, referred to as Plautia, who married three times and gave birth to several prominent Romans and several of her descendants used "Fabia" and "Barbarus" as names.
Jones suspects it was his sense of humor, in the form of harmless jokes directed at the emperor, that led to his execution.
Domitian was unable to handle personal criticism of any sort, and there was ample precedent for the laws of treason to be applied to writings of this kind.