Gnaeus Arulenus Caelius Sabinus

Gnaeus Arulenus Caelius Sabinus was a Roman senator, who was active during the Year of Four Emperors. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of April through June of 69 AD as the colleague of his brother Titus Flavius Sabinus.[1]

Gavin Townend has identified Flavius Sabinus as a nephew of the emperor Vespasian, and the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus, consul in 47,[2] a thesis that has come to be accepted by other scholars.[3] Tactius describes Caelius Sabinus as the brother of Flavius Sabinus, so the consul of 47 was also his father.[4]

  1. ^ G.B. Townend, "The Consuls of A. D. 69/70", American Journal of Philology, 83 (1962), pp. 113-129
  2. ^ Gavin Townend, "Some Flavian Connections", Journal of Roman Studies, 51 (1961), pp. 55f
  3. ^ For example, Brian W. Jones, The Emperor Domitian (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 45
  4. ^ Tacitus, Histories, i.77