FLAVIA DOMITILLA:(Redirected from DOMITILLA, FLAVIA.) Convert to
Judaism and martyr at Rome. An early branch of the imperial
Flavian house was at one time inclined toward Judaism and
Christianity. Even Titus Flavius Sabinus, Vespasian's elder
brother, led during his last years a life that may be called
Jewish or Christian. One of his four children, Titus Flavius
Clemens, later consul and martyr, married Flavia Domitilla, who
was a granddaughter of his uncle, the emperor Vespasian, and
therefore a cousin of Titus and Domitian. Clemens' two children,
called Vespasian and Domitian, were educated by the famous
Quintilian ("Institutio Oratoria," iv. 1, § 2), and were
secretly destined as successors to Domitian (Suetonius,
"Domitian," § 15). This arrangement, however, was disturbed when
it became known that both Clemens and Domitilla leaned toward
the despised "Oriental superstition." Dion Cassius relates that
Domitian had many persons executed, including the consul Flavius
Clemens and his wife, Flavia Domitilla, a