Gaius Pompeius Planta
Gaius Pompeius Planta was a
How Planta came to the attention of Trajan is not known. The only other office he is attested as holding is
An inscription found at Syene, modern-day Aswan, mentions Planta and a number of other equestrian officers stationed in Egypt, such as praefectus castrorum Lucius Genucius Priscus.[3]
Pliny mentions Planta in a letter to one Maximus, who had delivered several speeches against Planta.[5] Pliny is concerned that now that Planta has died, he should hurry to publication those speeches so to avoid the appearance that he was attacking the man when he could defend himself. This is our only clue to when Planta died: A. N. Sherwin-White dates this letter after 100, when Planta stepped down from his appointment, and before 107.[6]
References
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 279
- ^ IGR 3.466
- ^ CIL III, 14147 = ILS 8907
- ^ Epistulae X.5-7, 10
- ^ Epistulae IX.1
- ^ Sherwin-White, The letters of Pliny: a historical and social commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 481
Further reading
- Christian Naour, "Nouvelles Inscriptions de Balboura", Ancient Society, 9 (1978), pp. 165-185