Titus Flavius Sabinus (father of Vespasian)
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See also Titus Flavius Sabinus for other men of this name.
Titus Flavius Sabinus, (lived 1st century BC to 1st century) was the son of Titus Flavius Petro and Tertulla. He was an Equestrian from Reate (modern Rieti) in the Sabine region of Italy. He served as a customs official in the province of Asia, where he was honoured with statues dedicated "To an Honest Tax-gatherer", and later as a banker at Aventicum among the Helvetii in Gaul, where he died. With his wife, Vespasia Polla, he had two sons, the consul Titus Flavius Sabinus and the future emperor Vespasian, and a daughter who died in infancy.
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- Tacitus, Histories
- Suetonius, On the Life of the Caesars
- Cassius Dio, Roman History
- Arnold Blumberg (ed) (1995), Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History
