Vespasian
Vespasian, vis-pa'zhe-an, [Lat. Vespasia'nus; Fr.
Vespasien, vJs'pi'zg-^N' ; It. Vespasiano, ves-pa-sea'no,]
or, more fully, Ti'tus Fla'vius Vespasia'nus,
Emperor of Rome, was born near Reate in 9 a.d. He
served as military tribune in Thrace, and held the offices
of quaestor of Crete and Cyrene, under Caligula. He
was afterwards made praetor ; and,...
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Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian (17
November 9 – 23 June 79),[1][2] was Roman Emperor from 69 to
79. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty which
ruled the empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was
descended from a family of equestrians which rose into the
senatorial rank under the emperors of the Julio-Claud...
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A Roman emperor from A.D. 70 to A.D. 79. He was born in the Sabine country on the 17th of November, A.D. 9. His
father was a man of mean condition, of Reaté, in the country of the Sabini. His mother, Vespasia Polla, was the
daughter of a praefectus castrorum, and the sister of a Roman senator. She was left a widow with two sons,
Flavius Sabinus ...
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