CLEMENTE, CONSOLE. – Titus Flavius C., consul in A.D. 95, cousin of the emperor Domitian and husband of Flavia Domitilla, a man of “most contemptible indolence,” in Suetonius’s words, accused of atheism according to Cassius Dio, was condemned to death in the same year as his consulship. It is generally held that he was killed because of his Christianity, given the nature of the accusations.
BIBL.: Suetonius, Domitianus, 15, 1; Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, LXVII, 14; P. Allard, Storia critica delle persecuzioni, I, Italian translation by E. Lari, 2nd ed., Florence [1931], pp. 92–97; Fliche-Martin-Fruta, I, 2nd ed. (1942), nos. 240–41, 367.
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