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Triaria, Lucii Vitellii fratris Auli Ro. principis coniunx: anno salutis nostrae
nonagesimo, cum multis aliis meritis foret spectabilis, in hoc uno, ob feruidum
viri sui amorem, acetiam ob insitam naturae atrocitatem, tantae fuit ferocitatis
contra muliebrem morem: quia virago merito venerit appellanda. Discordantibus
igitur ob principatum, Vitellio Caesare atque Vespasiano, actum est: ut cum
intrassent Terracinam Volscorum oppidum, nonnulli gladiatores sub luliano quodam
duce, et remiges etiam plures Romanae classis haud longe a Cyrceo monte sub
Apollinario praefecto morantes, et hi cum Vespasiano sentientes, per negligentiam
et socordiam tenerentur, serui cuiusdam indicio factum est, ut nocte illa Lucius
intraret: Qui dum in semisopitos arma arripientes hostes atque oppidanos infestos
ferro saeviret: Triaria haec, quae per noctem virum secuta, civitatem intraverat,
in coniugis victoriam avida, gladio accincta, et Vitellianis immixta militibus,
nunc huc, nunc illuc, per medias noctis tenebras inter clamores dissonos, et
discurren tia tela, sanguinem morientiumque singultus extremos, nil militaris
severitatis omittendo, irruebat in miseros, adeo ut crudeliter nimium atque superbe,
in hostes egisse relatum sit. Ingentes in sano pectore coniugalis amoris sunt vires,
nulla illis, dummodo viri gloria extollatur, formido: nulla pietatis memoria,
nulla feminei sexus erubescentia, nulla denique temporum qualitatis extimatio.
Potuit Triaria in decus viri ut omnia facili labore subire: quae nedum feminas,
quibus ut plurimum mos est in diurno viris obmurmurare, nocte in sinu coniugis
foveri, sed robustos iuvenes atque bellicosos horrore quandoque corripere.
Et si tanto cum impetu se tulit haec in arma nocturna, mulier, quis credet eam
hoc tantum facinore fuisse conspicuam, cum non consueverint, seu exitiosae sint,
seu celebres, solae mortalium pectora subire vitutes.
De claris mulieribus, Giovanni Boccaccio, (between 1357 and 1363).
A Roman woman called Triaria (second wife of Lucius Vitellius the younger and sister-in-law to the brief future Roman Emperor Aulus Vitellius) terrified the City Prefect Titus Flavius Sabinus (brother to future Roman Emperor Vespasian) warning Sabinus not to seek a reputation for clemency by endangering Nero.