# Plator

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For the genus of spiders, see [Plator (spider)](/source/Plator_(spider)).

**Plator** (? –169 BC) the [Illyrian](/source/Illyrians) was brother to King [Gentius](/source/Gentius), the last [Illyrian](/source/Illyria) king of the [Ardiaean State](/source/Ardiaean_Kingdom).

Plator may have been killed because he wanted to marry [Etuta](/source/Etuta) in 169 BC.[1] She was the daughter of [Monunius](/source/Monunius_I_of_Dardania)[2] and was married[3] to [Gentius](/source/Gentius) himself.

The personal name Plator was very common among Illyrians, attested among the southern Illyrians, [Delmatae](/source/Delmatae), and [Pannoni](/source/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](/source/Liburnians) the name is found as Plaetor; among the [Veneti](/source/Adriatic_Veneti) as Plaetorius.[4] The *[gens](/source/Gens)* name [Plaetorius](/source/Plaetoria_(gens)) is also found among the [Romans](/source/Ancient_Romans), and a Gaius Plaetorius was one of the three [ambassadors](/source/Legatus) sent to King Gentius on behalf of Rome's allies.[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** The Illyrians by J. J. Wilkes, 1992, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-631-19807-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-19807-5), page 172, "... Roman allies in the previous war against Macedonia. In 169 BC there was a report that Gentius had his brother Plator killed because his plan to marry Etuta, ..."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Rome's Mediterranean Empire Book 41-45 and the Periochae Livy, Jane D. Chaplin, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-19-283340-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-283340-5), 2007, page 147, "...to Etleua, a daughter of Monunius..."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** The Illyrians by J. J. Wilkes, 1992, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-631-19807-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-19807-5), page 85, "...Longarus, Bato and Monunius, whose daughter Etuta was married to the Illyrian king Gentius, are all Illyrian."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Wilkes, *The Illyrians*, 1982.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Livy](/source/Livy) 42.26.6–7; [T.R.S. Broughton](/source/T.R.S._Broughton), *The Magistrates of the Roman Republic* (American Philological Association, 1986), vol. 1, p. 414.

## Sources

- *The Illyrians* by J.J. Wilkes, 1992, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-631-19807-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-19807-5).

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