the wife of the emperor Elagabalus, whom he married after divorcing his former wife, Paula.
This marriage gave great offence at Rome, since Aquilia was a vestal virgin; but Elagabalus
said that he had contracted it in order that divine children might be born from himself, the
pontifex maximus, and a vestal virgin. Dio Cassius says, that he did not live with her long;
but that after marrying three others successively, he again returned to her. It appears from
coins that he could not have married her before