THE BIOGRAPHY OF VESPASIAN BY SUETONIUS 

 NOTES FROM EPIGRAPHICAL SOURCES^'^ 



By Fred. B. R. Hellems 



The notes are given in the order in which they would appear in 

 an edition of the biography. The Suetonius references are to Roth's 

 edition of 1898. 



Vespasia Polla. Suet. Vesp. 1 ; p. 224, 1. 16. 



C. Caesari Augusto Germanico, | Germanici Caesaris f., Ti. 



C&eaaris Aug. n., j divi Augusti pron., pant, max., trib. ^ot. , 



COS. - . - - I Vespasia - - f. Polla. 



(Arch. Epig. Mitth. aus Oster, XY (1892), p. 34.) 

 Although the inscription is very fragmentary there is little 

 doubt that Bormann is right in assigning it to the mother of Ves- 

 pasian. Its interest lies in the dedication to Caligula, under whom 

 Vespasian was rather a favorite. Cf. Vesp. 2; p. 225, 1. 24 seq. As 

 to the particular object of the dedication we are left uninformed. 



Flavins Sabinus. Suet. Vesp. 1; p. 224, 1. 17. 



leg. divi Claudx pro pr. provinc. Moe \ siae, cur. census 



Gallici, praef. urb* | iterum. Huic senatus, auctor^^ | iTrip. Caes. 

 Fesj9asiano fratre, [ clupeum poQmXY2L^\m.onis | honoris cauQ9. A\\2X\b^ 

 fu I nus censorinm censuit, aisJiuam | inforo divi Km^'sXx ponen | dam 

 decrevit. Dessau, 984. 



') To supplement the provokinely meagrre literary evidence for the important reiem of Ves- 

 pasian I long ago began a collection of the epigraphical evidence. This task, how- 

 ever. I was compelled to resign to Mr. H. C. Newton, and the results of his research 

 have been published in the Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, No. XVL In the 

 present paper I have tried to bring together such of the inscriptions as seemed 

 directly pertinent in a commentary on the life in Suetonius. Naturally, I cannot 

 separate Mr. Newton's work from my own; but I am sure that if the notes happen to 

 be useful to any readers of Suetonius there will be no quarrel between us. 



