Catius Sabinus was a member of the third century gens Catia, which has been speculated to have originated in either northern Italy or Cisalpine Gaul, although it has been noted that the family owned property in Dalmatia.
[1] Catius Sabinus began his career as a Legatus legionis of the Legio XIII Gemina stationed in Dacia.
An intimate supporter of the emperor Caracalla, in AD 216, Catius Sabinus was rewarded for his loyalty by being appointed consul for a second time, after an unusually brief interval of around seven years, this time as consul ordinarius alongside Publius Cornelius Anullinus.
[2] He may have been the consular Sabinus whom the Historia Augusta claimed the emperor Elagabalus had ordered killed, but whose life was spared when the centurion mistakenly expelled him from the city instead.
He was also possibly the father of Sextus Catius Clementinus Priscillianus, consul ordinarius in AD 230.