Quintus Egrilius Plarianus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He was suffect consul for one of the nundinia in the first half of AD 144, as the colleague of Lucius Aemilius Carus.Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 74 Plarianus was the son of Marcus Acilius Priscus Egrilius Plarianus; he also is known to have had a sister, Egrilia M.f. Plaria.Mireille Corbier, L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1974), p. 178 Although his family had its origins in Ostia,Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 304 it is likely he spent most of his life in Rome.
Plarianus is known to have been governor of Moesia superior from c.152 to c.155 Eck and Andreas Pangerl, Eine Konstitution für abgeordnete Truppen aus vier Provinzen aus dem Jahr 152 Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 208 (2018), p. 229-236 and proconsular governor of Africa. An inscription from Avitta Bibba (now in Tunisia) attests he was governor of that province in the year 159, with his son Quintus Egrilius Plarianus as his legate or assistant. While governing in Africa, Plarianus received a letter from the literary figure Fronto, recommending one Julius Aquilinus for a job in his administration and praising the young man for his learning and eloquence.Fronto, ad Amicos 1.4
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