PLAU0597 C. Plautius (32) C. f. C. n. Venox

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. 9.34.6 (all censors between lex Aemilia and 310 "nobilissimi... viri")

Career

  • Censor 312 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • In Fast. Cap. is added the note "qui in hoc honore Venox appellatus est," which Frontinus explains by his ability to discover new springs of water. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 9.29.5; Diod. 20.36.1; Fast. Cap.; Frontin. Aq. 1.5; cf. on Claudius, Elog. 10, CIL 1 , p. 192; Inscr. Ital. 13.3.79 and 12; Cic. Sen. 16; Suet. Tib. 1.2; Pompon. in Dig. 1.2.2.36; Fest. 270 L, and texts cited, below; see Degrassi 36f., 110, 420f. Diod. (20.36.1-5) mentions the concord, Livy the disagreement of the Censors (9.29.7, and 33.4) and Plautius' abdication while Claudius continued in office (cf. Frontin. Aq. 1.5; Auct. Vir. Ill. 34; Mommsen, Str. 2.351, note 2). Claudius paved the Appian way to Capua, built the Claudian aqueduct, admitted sons of freedmen to the Senate, and gave landless citizens full citizen rights; also these Censors forbade the tibicines to hold their festival in the temple of Jupiter, and transferred the cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima from the Potitii to public slaves (Cic. Cael. 34-35; Liv. 9.29.5-11, and 33-34, and 46.10-11; Diod. 20.36.1-6; Elog. above; Ovid Fast. 6.654-692; Val. Max. 1.1.17; 2.5.4; Frontin. Aq. 1.5; Plut. Popl. 7.5; Suet. Claud. 24; Eutrop. 2.9.3; Pomp. Dig. 1.2.2.36; Serv. Aen. 8.179; Lact. Inst. Div. 2.7.15; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 325, p. 125 Helm; Cassiod.; Fest. 270 L; Macrob. Sat. 3.6.13). See 311 and 310. On Plautius, see Lübker no. 19. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 311 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The tibicines emigrated to Tibur but were brought back and restored their right of dining on the Capitol (Liv. 9.30.9-10; Val. Max. 2.5.4; Ovid Fasti 6.657-692). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 310 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Livy (9.33-34) describes an attempt by Tribunes to compel Claudius to give up office when his colleague did so at the end of the regular term (cf. Liv. 9.29.7-8; Diod. 20.36.6; Auct. Vir. Ill. 34). Mommsen (Str. 2.351, n. 2) believes that extraordinary prorogations to finish such tasks as the Appian Way and the Claudian aqueduct were permitted. (Broughton MRR I)