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Silvanus, Plautius

3. Plautius Silvanus, praetor A. D. 24, threw his wife Apronia out of the window, and having been accused of the crime, anticipated his condemnation by a voluntary death. (Tac. Ann. 4.22).

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.