sentences:  Bruttius’ life and career left few coherent traces in the literary record, but a number of inscriptions, including his complete "cursus honorum", fills out the picture considerably.Pliny, writing to Praesens, refers to him as a Lucanian and an inscription concerning his son has been found at Volceii in Lucania.His father has been identified as Lucius Bruttius Maximus, proconsul of Cyprus in AD 80.