Plautĭus (Plōt-), i, m., name of a Roman gens. 1. M. Plautius Hypsaeus, a consul A. U. C. 630, Cic. de Or. 1, 36, 166.— 2. M. Plautius Silvanus, a tribune of the people A. U. C. 666, Ascon. Cic. Corn. p. 79.—3. L. Plotius Gallus, a rhetorician in the time of Marius, Suet. Rhet. 2.—4. L. Plotius, a poet who celebrated the Mithridatic war, Cic. Arch. 9, 20.—Hence, A. Plautĭus (Plōt-), a, um, adj., of or pertaining to a Plautius (Plotius), Plautian, Plotian: Plautia lex, of the tribune of the people M. Plautius Sylvanus, Ascon. Cic. Corn. p. 79: ipse (Catilina) lege Plautiā interrogatus est, Sall. C. 31, 4; Cic. Mil. 13, 35: Plautia rogatio, Gell. 13, 3, 5: Plotia rogatio, Suet. Caes. 5.—B. Plautĭānus (Plōt-), a, um, adj., Plautian: fabulae,