Faustina. I. Annia Galeria, commonly distinguished as Faustina Senior, daughter of Annius Verus, prefect of Rome, and wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius, born about A. 1). 104, died in 141. She ascended the throne with Antoninus in 138, receiving the title of Augusta; and though the emperor grieved at her profligacy, his affection for her made him place her after death among the goddesses, raise temples and altars to her, and have medals struck in her honor, exceeding in number and variety those in honor of any other Roman empress.

II. Annia, called Faustina Junior, younger daughter of the preceding, wife of her cousin the emperor Marcus Aurelius, born about A. D. 125, died in 175. She surpassed even the dissolute manners of her mother. The emperor was aware of her disorderly life, but loved her ' notwithstanding the railleries and murmurings of the people and the advice of his friends.

She accompanied him in an expedition to the East, and suddenly died at a village near the foot of Mt. Taurus. Aurelius mourned for her, ranked her among the goddesses, caused medals to be struck in her honor inscribed Pudicitia, and exalted the place where she died into ! a city named Faustinopolis.