Editing Vibia Sabina (section)

== Empress ==
Sabina accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus’ wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She was the most traveled and visible empress to date.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sabina Augusta|last=Brennan|first=Corey|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-19-025099-7|pp=88, 151}}</ref> In 128, she was awarded the title of [[Augusta (honorific)|Augusta]].

Sabina is described in the poetry of [[Julia Balbilla]], her companion, in a series of epigrams on the occasion of Hadrian's visit to Egypt in November of 130. In the poems, Balbilla refers to Sabina as "beautiful" and "lovely."

The ''[[Historia Augusta]]'' reports that the historian [[Suetonius]], who was Hadrian's secretary, was dismissed by Hadrian from his position in 119, for "conducting [himself] toward his wife, Sabina, in a more informal fashion than the etiquette of the court demanded."<ref>[[Augustan History|''Historia Augusta'']] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Hadrian/1*.html#11.3 11.3]</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius|volume=26}}</ref> Meanwhile, her husband was thought to be more sexually interested in his favourite [[Antinous]] and other male lovers, and he and Sabina had no children.