Domitia
1.
Lepĭda, aunt of Nero, accused of magic
and put to death (A.D. 54) through the intrigues of Agrippina, who was jealous of her
influence over Nero (
Tac. Ann. xii. 64
foll.).
2.
Domitilla, wife of Vespasian, who had by her
Titus and Domitian and a daughter named Domitilla. She had been the mistress of a Roman
knight and passed for a freedwoman; but she was declared of free birth on having been
acknowledged by her father Flavius Liberalis, who held the situation of scribe to one of the
quaestors. She died before Vespasian came to the throne (
Suet.
Vesp. 3).
3.
Longīna, daughter of the famous Corbulo, the general of
Nero. She married Aelius Lamia, but was seduced by Domitian and, after the birth of a
daughter, publicly raised to the throne. Hardly, however, had the emperor elevated her to the
station of Augusta, when his jealousy was alarmed by certain familiarities to which she
admitted the pantomime Paris, so that he drove her from the palace. The ascendency which she
had acquired, however, over the vicious emperor was too strong to be thus suddenly dissolved,
and she was recalled to her former station. Domitia was concerned, it is thought, in the
conspiracy by which the emperor lost his life. She died during the reign of Trajan (
Suet. Dom. 3).
