Faltonia Betitia Proba

[3] Proba married Clodius Celsinus Adelphus,[4] praefectus urbi of Rome in 351, thus creating a bond with the powerful gens Anicia.

They had at least two sons, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius and Faltonius Probus Alypius, who became high imperial officers.

She was probably buried with her husband in the Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino in Rome, where, until the 16th century, there was their funerary inscription,[5] later moved to Villa Borghese before disappearing.

[8] The first poem, now lost, is called Constantini bellum adversus Magnentium (The War of Constantine against Magnentius) by the Codex Mutinensis.

Proba was involved to this war through her husband Clodius Celsinus Adelphus, who had been praefectus urbi of Rome in 351, the same year Italy passed from the sphere of influence of Magnentius to Constantius after the Battle of Mursa Major.

Faltonia Proba teaching the history of the world since the Creation through her Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi . Miniature from a 15th-century manuscript of the De mulieribus claris by Giovanni Boccaccio