TEUTA was the warrior queen of Illyria. The Illyrians were pirates, and their adventures provoked Rome. Teuta became queen in 231 B.C. and refused to give Rome satisfaction for the murder of some Roman merchants in 329 B.C., an incident that had occurred before her reign. She even insulted the Roman ambassadors who had come to her court (Polybius, Histories 2. 3-12). Jerome mentions her chastity, her strong rule over the Illyrians, and her insults to the Romans, Epistola adversus Jovinianum (Letter Against Jovinian) I.41 (PL 23: 274).

Dorigen remarks that Teuta's chastity is a mirror to wives, FranklT 1453-1454. [Dorigen]

The name occurs in medial position, FranklT 1453.