Vespasia Polla

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Vespasia Polla from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum. The abbreviation stands for: "Vespasia Polla Vespasiani Imperatoris Mater", which means: Vespasia Polla, mother of Emperor Vespasianus

Vespasia Polla (also known as Vespasia Pollia, born c. 15 BC, [

Nursia
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Nursia and Spoletum (present-day Spoleto).[1]

Vespasia married a tax collector

Titus Flavius Sabinus, served as consul in 47. After her husband died she never remarried.[citation needed
]

Sabinus achieved the senatorial rank, but Vespasian put off doing so. Suetonius (Life of Vespasian, 2.2) states that:

only his mother could finally induce him to sue for it. She at length drove him to it, but rather by sarcasm than by entreaties or parental authority, since she constantly taunted him with being his brother's footman.

Flavian family tree

References

  1. ^ Suetonius, Life of Vespasian, 1.2-3.