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PLAVTIVS, which follows, denotes the 
mily name , and often occurs in Roman writers, as 
alfo upon coins, where it is fometimes wri.cn Plo- 
tius, and at other times Tint ins n . 
DROSVS, the ccgnomen , I do not remember to 
have feen fo fpelt clfewhcrc ; but I make no doubt 
of its being the fame as ‘Drufus, which we frequent- 
ly meet with. For thus, as was juft now obferved, 
his family name is writen three feveral ways, 
! Tlautius , Plotius , and Plutius. And Suetonius , 
fpeaking of the Claudian family, fais : NotiJJimum 
eft Claudios omnes , excepto C P. Clodio, optimates of- 
fer tore fque dignitatis ac potentiae patriciorum fem- 
per fuiffe °. So likewife Poblicius , the name of 
the aedile above mentioned, is fometimes fpelt 
Tublicms. Thefe inftances indeed all relate to the 
family name 5 but the fame is true likewife with 
regard to the cognomen. So the name Poblicola, 
firft given to Publius Valerius, the collegue of Bru- 
tus, but retained afterwards by the family, is gene- 
rally writen Publicola p. And as to DruJ'us, Sueto- 
nius acquaints us with the original of that name. 
Drufus, fais he, hofiium duce Draufo cominus tru - 
cidato, fibi pojlerifque fids cognomen mvemt q. His 
other uames were Marcus Litvins , and the a&ion 
here refered to was in the year of the city 470 r . 
" See Vaillant Fam . Roman, in Plautia. 
0 In Tiber, cap. 2 
v Liv. ii. 8. vii. 32. 
* In Tiber, cap. 3. 
1 See Tighii annates , ad an. 470, 471, 
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