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Plautianus, Quintillus

a senator of high rank, blameless life and retired habits, who when far advanced in years was rashly put to death by Septimius Severuis upon some vague suspicion. His last words have been preserved by Dio Cassius (76.7).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.