Plautia (mother of Aelius Caesar)

Plautia was a Roman woman of senatorial rank whom Classical scholars believe lived in the late first century and early second century AD. No direct evidence of her existence has yet been found. Ronald Syme comments about her situation, "Plautia exemplifies a common phenomenon in the history of Imperial Rome; a fragment of knowledge rescued from the waters of oblivion, but a figure of consequence in the social and political history of the time."[1]

  1. ^ Syme, "Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettulani", Athenaeum 35 (1957), p. 308