Plautius Lateranus (executed AD 65) was a Roman senator of the first century and member of the influential Plautia gens.
[1] He was nephew to Aulus Plautius, the man who led the Invasion of Britain in 43 AD, and it was through his good offices that Plautius Lateranus escaped the death penalty in AD 48, after his affair with the emperor Claudius' wife Messalina was discovered.
[3] In AD 65, Plautius Lateranus, who was then consul designatus, was accused of being a participant of the Pisonian conspiracy.
Tacitus states that his 'removal' was so hasty that he was not permitted to say goodbye to his children, nor to choose the manner of his death.
[6] Though Tacitus doesn't state the means of execution, Epictetus in his Stoic Discourses makes it clear that he was beheaded.