Flavian — Minor Figures

5 figures from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Basilides

freedman · first appears Vespasian 7

• Vespasian 7 · patron: Vespasian “upon turning round, [his freedman] Basilides appeared before him, and seemed to offer him the sacred leaves, chaplets, and cakes, according to the usage of the place”

Vespasia

mother of Vespasian · first appears Vespasian 5

• Vespasian 5 · child: Vespasian “Upon an estate belonging to the Flavian family, in the neighbourhood of Rome, there was an old oak, sacred to Mars, which, at the three several deliveries of Vespasia, put out each time a new branch; evident intimations of the future fortune of each child. The first was but a slender one, which quickly withered away; and accordingly, the girl that was born did not live long. The second became vigorous, which portended great good fortune; but the third grew like a tree.”

Julia (daughter of Titus)

daughter of Titus · first appears Domitian 17

• Domitian 17 · parent: Titus “Julia, the daughter of Titus”
• Domitian 17 · guardian: Phyllis “mingled them with the ashes of Julia, the daughter of Titus, whom she had also nursed.”

Flavius Liberalis

secretary to a quaestor · first appears Vespasian 3

• Vespasian 3 · child: Flavia Domitilla “brought by her father Flavius Liberalis”

Titus Flavius Petro

father of Sabinus · first appears Vespasian 1

• Vespasian 1 · child: Sabinus “Titus Flavius Petro, a townsman of Reate, whether a centurion or an evocatus of Pompey’s party in the civil war, is uncertain, fled out of the battle of Pharsalia and went home; where, having at last obtained his pardon and discharge, he became a collector of the money raised by public sales in the way of auction. His son, surnamed Sabinus, was never engaged in the military service, though some say he was a centurion of the first order, and others, that whilst he held that rank, he was discharged on account of his bad state of health:”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.