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Salonia Matidia
Salonia Matidia (4 July 68 CE – 23 December 119 CE) was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan. Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter. Her father died in 78 CE and Matidia went with her mother to live with Trajan and his wife, Pompeia Plotina.
Between 81 and 82, Matidia married a suffect consul and former proconsul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. Sabinus died in 83 or 84
Matidia
Matidia can refer to the following people:
- Salonia Matidia, niece of the Roman Emperor Trajan and mother-in-law of Hadrian, posthumously deified under the name "diva Matidia"
- Matidia Minor or Mindia Matidia, the second daughter of Salonia Matidia, who gave her name to the Italian village of Matigge
It can also refer to:
- "Matidia" (spider), a genus of spiders