Plautia gens

Members of this gens first appear in history in the middle of the fourth century BC, when Gaius Plautius Proculus obtained the consulship soon after that magistracy was opened to the plebeian order by the Licinio-Sextian rogations.

Little is heard of the Plautii from the period of the Samnite Wars down to the late second century BC, but from then to imperial times they regularly held the consulship and other offices of importance.

[1] In the first century AD, the emperor Claudius, whose first wife was a member of this family, granted patrician status to one branch of the Plautii.

[4] Frontinus describes a story, in which Gaius Plautius, censor in 312 BC, obtained the cognomen Venox by discovering the springs that fed the Aqua Appia, Rome's first aqueduct.

[9] Later Plautii were entangled in the affairs of the imperial family during the first century, this branch first appears in the later years of the Republic, and flourished until the time of Nero.

Tomb of the Plautii and the Ponte Lucano , on the via Tiburtina by Tivoli (ancient Tibur). Jacob Philipp Hackert (1780).
Denarius issued by Publius Plautius Hypsaeus in 60 BC. The obverse features a head of Neptune , while the reverse depicts the triumph of Gaius Plautius Decianus after his capture of Privernum . [ 3 ]