The elder Grypus acceded to the suffect consulship for the period 13 January to April 88, succeeding the emperor Domitian.
[1] We are told by a scholiast on Juvenal that Grypus, like his brother Pegasus, were named by their father, an officer in the Roman navy, for ships he commanded.
[5] Edward Champlin has identified as his son another Plotius Grypus, mentioned by Statius in one of the poems collected in his Silvae (IV.9), who was "well launched on his senatorial career by the mid-90s".
[6] This identification was accepted by Brian W. Jones, who notes that when Statius wrote his poem for the younger Grypus, he made no reference to his consular father.
"In 88, though, the position was vastly different: Julianus was the hero of Tapae, victor over the Dacians, whereas it had taken Grypus 18 years to reach the consulship.