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Plato
Named Plato by Socrates, for the breadth of his shoulders or speech, he was born Aristocles on May 21, 428 B.C.
Plautus
The greatest Roman comic playwright, Titus Maccius Plautus was born 254 B.C. om Umbria and died in 184. He was reputed to have written 130 pieces.
Plebiscitum
Name for a decree of the comitia tributa.
Plebs/Plebians
That part of the Roman population whose origin was among the conquered Latins. Contrasted with the patrician nobility.
Pleiades
Seven daughters of Atlas and the ocean nymph Pleione.
Pleias
"Group of seven stars" refers to seven tragic poets who wrote at Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus in the third century B.C.: Alexander, Aetolus, Philiscus, Sositheus, Homerus, Aeantides, Sosiphanes, and Lycophron.
Pliny
Gaius Plinius Secundus was born in 23 AD in Como. He was in command of the fleet stationed at Misenum, under Titus, when in 79 the volcano on Vesuvius erupted. He wrote the Natural History. His adopted son, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus wrote speeches which have been lost. We have a collection of his letters.
Plotinus
Greek philosopher born 205 AD in Egypt.
Plutarch
Greek biographer born at Chaeronea in Boeotia about 50 AD.
Pluto
King of the Underworld.
Plutus
Greek personification of riches, born in Crete to Demeter and Iasion. Supposedly blinded by Zeus. In Thebes and Athens he is represented as a child on the arm of Tyche.
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