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Titus Flavius Sabinus

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the name of four notable Ancient Rome, father, son, grandson andgreat-grandson.*Titus Flavius Sabinus *Titus Flavius Sabinus ...
 for other men of this name.

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the elder son of Titus Flavius Sabinus
Titus Flavius Sabinus (father of Vespasian)

See also Titus Flavius Sabinus for other men of this name.Titus Flavius Sabinus, was the son of Titus Flavius Petro and Tertulla. He was an Equestrian from Reate in the Sabina region of Italy....
 and Vespasia Polla
Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla was the mother of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, grandmother to Emperors to Titus and Domitian. Polla came from a good Equestrian family at Nursia....
. Along with his younger brother Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
, he served in the Roman conquest of Britain
Roman conquest of Britain

By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
 in 43
43

Year 43 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
, during the reign of the Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
. He was consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 in 47
47

Year 47 was common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
, governor of Moesia
Moesia

Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
 from 50
50

Year 50 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
 to 56
56

Year 56 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
, and from 56
56

Year 56 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
-69
69

Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
 was Prefect
Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa....
 of the city of Rome. Lucius Pedanius Secundus served as Prefect of Rome sometime during the year of 61 however, and so most scholars conclude that Sabinus served two terms as prefect, one from 56-60 and another from 62-69 .






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See also Titus Flavius Sabinus
Titus Flavius Sabinus

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the name of four notable Ancient Rome, father, son, grandson andgreat-grandson.*Titus Flavius Sabinus *Titus Flavius Sabinus ...
 for other men of this name.

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the elder son of Titus Flavius Sabinus
Titus Flavius Sabinus (father of Vespasian)

See also Titus Flavius Sabinus for other men of this name.Titus Flavius Sabinus, was the son of Titus Flavius Petro and Tertulla. He was an Equestrian from Reate in the Sabina region of Italy....
 and Vespasia Polla
Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla was the mother of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, grandmother to Emperors to Titus and Domitian. Polla came from a good Equestrian family at Nursia....
. Along with his younger brother Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
, he served in the Roman conquest of Britain
Roman conquest of Britain

By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
 in 43
43

Year 43 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
, during the reign of the Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
. He was consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 in 47
47

Year 47 was common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
, governor of Moesia
Moesia

Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
 from 50
50

Year 50 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
 to 56
56

Year 56 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
, and from 56
56

Year 56 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
-69
69

Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
 was Prefect
Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa....
 of the city of Rome. Lucius Pedanius Secundus served as Prefect of Rome sometime during the year of 61 however, and so most scholars conclude that Sabinus served two terms as prefect, one from 56-60 and another from 62-69 . The reason for his temporary deposition is unknown.

Sabinus was an important supporter of his brother: when Vespasian found himself in financial difficulties while governor of Africa
Africa Province

File:Roman Africa.JPGThe Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, north-eastern Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor....
, Sabinus lent him the money to continue, and while Vespasian was governor of Iudaea
Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
 Sabinus was a vital source of information on events in Rome. However in 69
69

Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
, the Year of the Four Emperors
Year of the Four Emperors

The Year of the Four Emperors was a year in the history of the Roman Empire, AD 69, in which four emperors ruled in a remarkable succession. These four emperors were Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian....
, as Vespasian advanced to Rome, Sabinus was besieged on the Capitoline Hill
Capitoline Hill

The Capitoline Hill , between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome of Rome. By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Campidoglio in the Romanesco....
 before being put to death by the Emperor Vitellius
Vitellius

Aulus Vitellius Germanicus, born Aulus Vitellius and commonly known as Vitellius , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 16 April 69 to 22 December of the same year....
, and did not live to see his brother take over the Empire. He had one son, Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 69)
Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 69)

See also Titus Flavius Sabinus for other men of this name.Titus Flavius Sabinus was the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus . He was suffect consul in May and June 69 and one of the generals who fought for Otho against Vitellius during the Year of the Four Emperors, although he submitted to Vitellius once Otho had been defeated....
.

There have been conjectures that he might have been the Theophilus mentioned in the Bible (Theophilus (Biblical)
Theophilus (Biblical)

Theophilus is the name of a person or an Honorary title to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles is addressed . Most scholars agree that both Luke and Acts were originally written in Koine Greek, and that "?e?f????" , as it appears therein, means friend of God or loved by God or loving God in the Greek language....
) to whom both the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts were written or dedicated.