Plotius Griphus

Plotius Griphus was a soldier of ancient Rome who was a partisan of the Roman emperor Vespasian, was raised to the praetorship in the year 70, replacing Tettius Julianus, and was also raised to the rank of senator. He was also a friend of Statius the poet, and there is a poem in Statius's Silvae inscribed to him.^[1]

Notes

1. Tacitus, Histories 3.52, 4.39, 40

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Plotius Griphus". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. p. 428.