Plotius Firmus

Family: Otho · Role: prefect of the Praetorian Guards · First appears: Histories I.46-49

Life events

• Plotius Firmus and Licinius Proculus were chosen as prefects by the Praetorian Guards.(Histories I.46-49)
  • With: Licinius Proculus
  • “The Praetorian Guards chose their own prefects, Plotius Firmus, a man who had risen from the ranks to the post of Chief of Police, and joined Otho's side before Galba's fall, and Licinius Proculus, an intimate friend of Otho, and therefore suspected of furthering his plans.”
• Licinius Proculus and Plotius Firmus announced a payment of five thousand sesterces to each soldier.(Histories I.81-84)
  • With: Licinius Proculus
  • “They concluded by announcing that the men were to receive five thousand sesterces apiece.”
• Plotius Firmus found Otho dying from a single wound in his breast.(Histories II.49-53)
  • With: Otho
  • “Hearing his dying groan, his slaves and freedmen entered with Plotius Firmus, the Prefect of the Guards, and found a single wound in his breast.”

Histories I.46-49

• friends with Otho “Plotius Firmus, a man who had risen from the ranks to the post of Chief of Police, and joined Otho's side before Galba's fall”

Histories I.81-84

• employer: Otho “Their prefects, Licinius Proculus and Plotius Firmus, harangued them by companies, the one mildly, the other harshly, for they were men of different natures.”

Histories II.45-48

• employer: Otho (Plotius Firmus is Otho's Prefect of the Guard.) “The most eager of all was Plotius Firmus, the Prefect of the Guard, who besought Otho again and again not to desert a supremely faithful army, men who had done him such great service.”
• friends with Otho “The most eager of all was Plotius Firmus, the Prefect of the Guard, who besought Otho again and again not to desert a supremely faithful army, men who had done him such great service.”

Histories II.49-53

• employer: Otho (Plotius Firmus is identified as the officer commanding Otho's Guards.) “Hearing his dying groan, his slaves and freedmen entered with Plotius Firmus, the Prefect of the Guards, and found a single wound in his breast.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.