It is known from an inscription at Aquileia, of which he was a patronus, that A. Platorius Nepos, friend of Hadrian, consul suffect in 119, and legate of Britain from about 122 to 124, had been at one time tribunus plebis. Of some 16 inscriptions that name him and that are remarkable in being all exactly or approximately datable the Aquileia one is the only one that gives his name complete— ‘A. Platorius A. f. Serg. Nepos Aponius Italicus Manilianus C. Licinius Pollio’. From this it would appear (though, so far as I know, no one has previously drawn this conclusion) that his original name had been ‘C. Licinius Pollio’, but that he was adopted by one A. Platorius … Manilianus (whose name also looks like the result of adoption at some stage) and took Platorius’ name, adding at the end of it his own original name for formal completeness, as normal at this period. (Elsewhere he is named ‘A. Platorius Nepos’, ‘Platorius Nepos’ [in the same diploma, by error, also ‘Pretorius Nepos’], in the brickstamps ‘Plaetorius Nepo(s)’ or ‘Pl. Nep.’, and in the Augustan History Life of Hadrian ‘Pletorius Nepos’ or simply ‘Nepos’.)