Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul AD 69)

See also Titus Flavius Sabinus for other men of this name.

Titus Flavius Sabinus was the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 47). 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. He was besieged alongside his father in the Capital, but escaped when it was burnt down. His paternal cousin, Emperor Domitian, later had him put to death after a herald saluted him as imperator ("commander", a title only the emperor was entitled to) instead of "consul".

He was the father of Titus Flavius Sabinus and Titus Flavius Clemens.

Flavius Sabinus was probably appointed Urban Prefect as the successor of Saturninus in AD 56 see also CIL, VI, 31293 He may have been in the conspiracy to ssassinate of Nero. No one is certain, but after the death of Nero the senate was favorable of Flavius Sabinus.

Sources

• Tacitus, Histories
• Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Cassius Dio, Roman History
• Arnold Blumberg (ed) (1995), Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History