person
Pompeia Plotina
Plotina
also: uxor
Trajan's wife, praised by Pliny (who does not name her) for her chastity, modesty, and citizen-like simplicity; she declined the title Augusta while Trajan declined Pater Patriae.
Reading notes
- The Letters §9.28.1 Plotina
Pompeia Plotina, wife of the emperor Trajan; Pliny undertakes to deliver Voconius Romanus's letter to her.
- Panegyric to Trajan §83 your wife
Pompeia Plotina, Trajan's wife (unnamed by Pliny), praised for chastity and citizen-like simplicity; she declined the title Augusta while Trajan declined Pater Patriae.