Domitilla

1. The first wife of Vespasian, by whom he had three children, Titus, Domitian, and a daughter Domitilla. She had originally been the mistress of a Roman eques, Statilius Capella, and a freedwoman. Subsequently however she received the Latinitas, and was at last made ingenua. She as well as her daughter died before Vespasian was proclaimed emperor. (Suet. Vesp. 3.) Her portrait is given in the coin annexed, which was struck after her death.

2. The wife of Flavius Clemens. [Clemens, T. Flavius.] Philostratus (Vit. Apollon. 8.25) calls her a sister of the emperor Domitian, which is impossible, as Domitilla, the sister of Domitian, had died even before Vespasian's accession. Dio Cassius (67.14) calls her merely a συγγενής of Domitian, and it has been conjectured that in Philostratus we must read ὰδελφιδήν instead of ὰδελφήν. It may be that our Domitilla was a daughter of Vespasian's daughter of the same name. After the murder of her husband Clemens, Stephanus, the freedman and murderer of Domitian, was her procurator. (Suet. Domit. 17; comp. Reimarus, ad Dio Cass. l.c.) [L.S]

See Domitia.