Plotius

1. A. Plotius, a friend of Cicero, was curule aedile with Cn. Plancius, B. C. 54, praetor urbanus, B. C. 51, and subsequently propraetor of Bithynia and Pontus, in which province he was at least as late as B. C. 48. (Cic. pro Planc. 7, 22, ad Att. 5.15, ad Fam. 13.29.)

2. M. Plotius, was engaged in the civil war, B. C. 48, between Caesar and Pompey. (Caes. Civ. 3.19.)

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a partizan of Vespasian, was raised to the practorship, A. D. 70 (Tac. Hist. 3.52, 4.39, 40.)

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whose full name was Marius Plotius Sacerdos, a Latin grammarian. Works De Aletris Liber

He was the author of De Aletris Liber, dedicated to Maximus and Simplicius. All that we know with regard to the writer is comprised in the brief notice prefixed by himself to his work "Marius Plotius Sacerdos composui Romae docens de metris." From the prooemium which follows we learn that this essay formed the third and concluding book of a treatise upon grammar, the subject of the first book having been De Institutis Artis Grammaticae, and of the second De Nominum Verborumque Ratione nec non de Scripturarum Compositionibus.

Although we have no direct means of determining the period when Plotius flourished we are led to infer from his style that he cannot be earlier than the fifth or sixth century. Editions

The "Liber de Metris" was first published by Putschius in his "Grammnaticae Latinae Auctores antiqui," 4to. Hannov. 1605. p. 2623-2663, from a MS. or MSS. belonging to Andreas Schottus and Joannes a Wouwer. It will be found also in the "Scriptores Latini Rei Metricae" of Gaisford, 8vo. Oxon. 1837. u. 242-302. M. Claudii Sacerdotis Artium Grammaticarum Libri Duo

Endlicher published in his "Analecta Grammatica" from a MS. which once belonged to the celebrated monastery of Bobbio a tract, entitled M. Claudii Sacerdotis Artium Grammaticarum Libri Duo, which he endeavoured to prove were in reality the two books by Marius Plotius Sacerdos described above, but there is not sufficient evidence to warrant this conclusion. [W.R]

Marius, called Sacerdos. A Latin grammarian, who wrote a work on grammar (Ars Grammatica) in the third century A.D. It was in three books, of which the third, De Metris, is preserved entire and the other two in part. It is given in Gaisford's collection of metrical writers (Oxford, 1837); the whole work in Keil's Grammatici Latini, vi. 427.