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Servilianus (Consul U.C. 612) punished his son for dubia castitas; and a private soldier, C. Plotius, killed his military Tribune, Q. Luscius, for unchaste proposals.
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Plotius of course was young, but more than old enough to have seen service as a junior tribune against the Cimbri in Italian Gaul; he had been attached to Catulus Caesar, but — as everybody did who served in that campaign — he knew where the real credit lay.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Plotius strolled down to the stream south of the bridge, wanting to find a vantage point from which he could watch those fine stout fellows making the bridge timbers jingle and shudder as they jogged across.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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The river was up and roaring, but — due to the fact that Plotius had deliberately made for a small promontory jutting into the straight course of the stream — on the south side of the land where he stood there was a little bay full of eddies and bodies.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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He likewise, by an act, which Plotius at his suggestion propounded to the people, obtained the recall of Lucius Cinna, his wife's brother, and others with him, who having been the adherents of Lepidus in the civil disturbances, had after that consul's death fled to Sertorius [17]; which law he supported by a speech.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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He likewise, by an act, which Plotius at his suggestion propounded to the people, obtained the recall of Lucius Cinna, his wife's brother, and others with him, who having been the adherents of Lepidus in the civil disturbances, had after that consul's death fled to Sertorius [17]; which law he supported by a speech.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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There was Plotius, and there was Varius, bird of Maeonian song, whom he ranks with the singer of the _Aeneid_ himself as the most luminously pure of souls on earth.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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With his address to "Virgil, the half of my soul," his references to Plotius, Varius, and Virgil as the purest and whitest souls of earth, his affectionate messages in _Epistle_ and
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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Farther, an agrarian law has been promulgated by Flavius, a poor production enough, almost identical with that of Plotius.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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With his address to “Virgil, the half of my soul,” his references to Plotius, Varius, and Virgil as the purest and whitest souls of earth, his affectionate messages in
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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