Wagner, Sir Anthony Richard; ‘Pedigree and Progress: Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History’ has him as the 3rd husband of Mariamne III - but see Discussion looking for evidence to corroborate this.

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Titus Flavius Sabinus (8 AD–20 December 69 AD) was a Roman politician and soldier. He was the elder son of Titus Flavius Sabinus and Vespasia Polla and brother of the Emperor Vespasian.

Career

Along with his younger brother Vespasian, he was born in Reate, modern Rieti, in Sabinia, Italy, and served in the Roman conquest of Britain as a Legate in a legion in 43 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius. He was Consul Suffectus in 47 AD (some say in 45 AD, or perhaps Ordinarius in 45 AD?), Governor, or better Legatus Augusti pro praetore of Moesia from 50 to 56 AD or from c. 53 to 60 AD, Consul Suffectus in November 52 AD, and from 56 to 69 AD was Praefectus Urbi Romae. Lucius Pedanius Secundus served as Prefect of Rome in year 61 AD however, and so most scholars conclude that Sabinus served two terms as Prefect, one from 56 to 60 AD and another from 62 to 69 AD.[1] The reason for his temporary deposition is unknown. Others say he was temporarily deposed in 69 AD.

Sabinus was an important supporter of his brother: when Vespasian found himself in financial difficulties while governor of Africa, Sabinus lent him the money to continue, and while Vespasian was governor of Iudaea Sabinus was a vital source of information on events in Rome. However in 69 AD, the Year of the Four Emperors, as pro-Vespasian forces advanced to Rome, Sabinus, who had been made Consul Suffectus in May of that year, was besieged on the Capitoline Hill before being put to death by the Emperor Vitellius, and did not live to see his brother take over the Empire. He was buried in Rome in 70 AD and had a state funeral.

He married Arrecina Clementina, born in Pisaurum, Italy, c. 12 AD, daughter of Arrecinus and wife Tertulla and sister of Marcus Arrecinus Clemens, and had one son, also called Titus Flavius Sabinus, and one daughter Flavia, born c. 30 AD, who married Lucius Caesennius Paetus.{{[2]}} There is a possibility that Clemens would be related to the paternal side of Vespasian. Vespasian's and Sabinus's paternal grandmother bore the cognomen Tertulla and this cognomen was also bore by both his daughter and his mother.

Biblical mention

There have been conjectures that he might have been the Theophilus mentioned in the Bible to whom both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts were written or dedicated.

References

• Tacitus, Histories
• Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Cassius Dio, Roman History
• Arnold Blumberg (ed) (1995), Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History
• Paul Maier, The Flames of Rome
• Christian Settipani. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000

1. Paul L. Maiers, The Flames of Rome, Pg. 427
2. CIL 14, 2830 = ILS 995

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Titus Flavius Sabinus

Titus Flavius T. f. T. n. Sabinus (d. December 20 BC, AD 69) was a Roman politician and soldier. A native of Reate, he was the elder son of Titus Flavius Sabinus and Vespasia Polla, and brother of the Emperor Vespasian.

Career

Sabinus is first mentioned in the reign of Claudius, in AD 45, when he served as a legate under Aulus Plautius in Britain, along with his brother, Vespasian. He afterwards governed Moesia for seven years. Sabinus was consul suffectus ex. Kal. Nov. in AD 52, and was praefectus urbi for the last eleven years of Nero's reign. Evidently removed from this position on the accession of Galba in AD 68, the historian Tacitus states that Sabinus was reinstated soon after Otho seized power in January 69. He may have been part of the Pisonian conspiracy against Nero, but if so he was never arrested.

Sabinus was an important supporter of his brother; when Vespasian found himself in financial difficulties while governor of Africa, Sabinus lent him the money to continue, and while Vespasian was governor of Judaea Sabinus was a vital source of information on events in Rome. After the death of Otho, Sabinus directed the urban cohorts to swear allegiance to Vitellius, evidently an attempt to preclude further bloodshed. At the same time, the consul Titus Flavius Sabinus, probably Sabinus' nephew, directed his troops in northern Italy to submit to the generals of Vitellius. Sabinus continued to retain the dignity of praefectus urbi under Vitellius.

Soon afterward, the legions in the East declared for Vespasian, who then advanced toward Rome, supported by Marcus Antonius Primus. After Vitellius' troops were defeated, the emperor, despairing of success, offered to surrender the empire into the hands of Sabinus, until his brother arrived. However, Vitellius' German soldiers refused this arrangement, and Sabinus was besieged in the Capitol, together with his family. The capitol was burnt by Vitellius' forces, and in the confusion Sabinus' family made their escape, but Sabinus himself was captured and dragged before the emperor, who attempted in vain to save him from the fury of the soldiers. Sabinus was brutally murdered, and his remains thrown to a place where the corpses of malefactors were taken. When the generals of Vespasian obtained possession of the city, Sabinus was interred with the honour of a censor's funeral.

Family

Sabinus' wife is not named in any ancient sources. Settipani conjectures that she was a sister of Marcus Arrecinus Clemens. Sabinus' children included Titus Flavius Sabinus, consul in AD 82, and Titus Flavius Clemens, consul in 95, as well as a daughter, Flavia, who married Lucius Caesennius Paetus. He probably had an elder brother, who was the father of Titus Flavius Sabinus, consul suffectus ex Kal. Mai. in AD 69.

Character

Tacitus describes Sabinus as being fair-minded and honest, though prone to be overly gregarious. His failure to hold the well fortified capitol during the final days of the civil war is attributed to his moderation, lack of enterprise and reluctance to take Roman lives.

Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Flavius_Sabinus_(consul_AD_52)