Plator (? –169 BC) the
Illyrian was brother to King
Gentius, the last
Illyria
In classical antiquity, Illyria (; grc, Ἰλλυρία, ''Illyría'' or , ''Illyrís''; la, Illyria, ''Illyricum'') was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyr ...
n king of the
Ardiaean State.
Plator may have been killed because he wanted to marry
Etuta in 169 BC. She was the daughter of
Monunius and was married to
Gentius himself.
The personal name Plator was very common among Illyrians, attested among the southern Illyrians,
Delmatae, and
Pannoni; sometimes in lands north of the Delmatae it was also spelled Pletor. The name is also found in derivatives such as Platino and Platoris. Among the
Liburnians the name is found as Plaetor; among the
Veneti as Plaetorius. The ''
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
'' name
Plaetorius is also found among the
Romans, and a Gaius Plaetorius was one of the three
ambassadors sent to King Gentius on behalf of Rome's allies.
[ Livy 42.26.6–7; ]T.R.S. Broughton
Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, FBA (; 17 February 1900 – 17 September 1993) was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, '' Magistr ...
, ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'' (American Philological Association, 1986), vol. 1, p. 414.
References
Sources
*''The Illyrians'' by J.J. Wilkes, 1992, .
External links
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Illyrian people
169 BC deaths
Year of birth unknown