Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla (also known as Vespasia Pollio, flourished 1st century) was the mother of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, grandmother to Emperors to Titus and Domitian. Polla came from a good equestrian family at Nursia. Suetonius (Life of Vespasian, 1.2-3) states that her father was:

She married a tax collector Titus Flavius Sabinus, and survived him. Their children were a daughter who died in her infancy; a younger Sabinus and Vespasian. After her husband died she never remarried.

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


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