Triaria was the wife of Lucius Vitellius the younger

Lucius Vitellius the younger

Lucius Vitellius was a Roman who lived in the 1st century. He was the second son of Lucius Vitellius the elder and Sextilia and younger brother of emperor Aulus Vitellius....

 (the brother of emperor Aulus Vitellius

Vitellius

Vitellius , was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was acclaimed Emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors...

), in the 1st century CE.

Life

According to Tacitus

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...

, when former praetor Marcus Plancius Varus

Marcus Plancius Varus

Marcus Plancius Varus was an Anatolian Roman noble who lived in the 1st century in the Roman Empire. His paternal ancestors were originally from Latium in Central Italy. They had immigrated to Anatolia in the time of the late Roman Republic. Varus came from a local, wealthy family who were...

 implied treasonable behaviour by Dolabella, she terrified the City Prefect

Praefectus urbi

The praefectus urbanus or praefectus urbi, in English the urban prefect, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, and held high importance in late Antiquity...

, Titus Flavius Sabinus

Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 47)

Titus Flavius Sabinus 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:...

, warning him not to seek a reputation for clemency by endangering the Emperor.,

She was accused of wearing a soldier's sword and behaving with insolent cruelty after the capture of the town of Tarracina.

In On Famous Women, Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular...

 praised Triaria for her bravery.,, An early French manuscript of this work contains a plate f. 63v (captioned Miniature showing a bloody slaughter inside a walled city, with Triaria prominent among the wounded warriors.) which may refer to the sack of Tarracina.

External links

• De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus: aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera, Ravisius, Johannes (Ed.)
• Boccaccio on Triaria (in Spanish)
• Lucius Vitellius

Primary sources

• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Historiae ii.63, iii.76-77
• Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000