Titus Ollius

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Titus Ollius (died AD 31) was a prominent Roman citizen and the father of Poppaea Sabina, the Empress consort of the Roman Empire. His origins lay in Cupra Maritima, a town of Picenum; an inscription found there bears his name and that of three of his freedmen. [1] Ollius was implicated in Sejanus' conspiracy against Tiberius, and committed suicide. [2]

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Ancestry

Titus was Nero's father-in-law (#6 below).

Notes

  1. CIL IX, 5326
  2. Tacitus, Annales , XIII.45; Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 178

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