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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 24608465, member: 88829&quot;]No takers for Paulina? </p><p><br /></p><p>Caecilia Paulina (died in 235/236) was a Roman Empress and consort to Emperor Maximinus Thrax, who ruled in 235–238.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563781[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Her full name, Diva Caecilia Paulina Pia Augusta, was preserved on an inscription (CIL X, 5054[see above]). On her coins she is termed simply Diva Paulina. The coins with her inscription were not struck during her life, but some time later, probably after she was deified. No sculptural likenesses of her survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563779[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Almost nothing is known about her life, as ancient writers rarely mentioned her by name. Her husband never set foot in Rome,[3] thus it is likely that neither did she, at least in her time married to the Emperor.</p><p>Marcellinus refers to the Empress as the good wife (of the difficult husband) who had:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ... led him back into the paths of truth and mercy, by feminine gentleness, as, in recounting the acts of the Gordiani, we have related to have been done by the wife of that truculent emperor Maximinus&nbsp;&nbsp; — Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History[5]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Paulina had one son, Gaius Julius Verus Maximus, appointed Caesar in 236 by his father, but both men were murdered by the soldiers in May 238. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563783[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Paulina probably died around late 235 or early 236, as Maximus had her deified in 236.[3]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563784[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s try another, not as pricey perhaps.&nbsp; She was the wife of Aurelian, and mother of Gallienus.&nbsp; Her name was Mariniana.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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