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Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Flavia Domitilla was the wife of the Roman emperor Vespasian. She bore him three children: his two sons, Titus and Domitian, who both eventually succeeded him as emperor, and a daughter, also named Flavia Domitilla.12
Both Flavia Domitilla and her daughter passed away before Vespasian ascended to the imperial throne. Following her death, Vespasian resumed a relationship with his former mistress, Caenis, a freedwoman who had previously served Antonia, the sister-in-law of the emperor Tiberius.12