A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1158 TITlNIUS. TITIUS.
than Terence, and hence that he must have flou- 14. TITINIUS, a centurion in the army of Cassius
rished about B. C. 170. The names of upwards of at the battle of Philippi, B. C. 42, was sent by his
fourteen plays together with a considerable number commander, after his defeat by Antony, to see how
of short fragments, the language of which bears an Brutus had fared; but as Titinius did not return
antique stamp, have been preserved by the gram- so soon as was expected, Cassius, supposing all was
marians, especially Nonius Marcellus. These will lost, put an end to his own life. Titinius, on his
be found collected in the Poetarum Latii Seenico- arrival, killed himself over the body of Cassius, to
ruen Fragmenta of Bothe, vol. ii. 8vo. Lips. 1834, atone for his involuntary error. (Val. Max. ix. 9.
p. 58, and in the essay of Neukirch, De Fabula ~ 2.) The story is told a little differently by ApTogata Rotlanorum. 8vo. Lips. 1833, p. 97. pian (B. C. iv. 113) and Plutarch. (Brut. 43.)
(See Varr. L. L. lib. v. as quoted by Charisius, 15. TITINIUS, a legate of Octavianus in his war
p. 215, ed. Putsch; Seren. Sammon. de Re Med. with Sex. Pompeius. (Appian, B. C. v. 111.)
v. 1044, where, according to one (false) reading, 16. C. TITIN1US, whose name occurs on coins,
the name of the author would be Vectius or Vetlius cannot be referred with certainty to any of the
Titinius.) [W. R.] preceding persons. On the obverse is the head of
TITI'NIUS. 1. M.'TITINIUS, one of the tri- Pallas, and on the reverse Victory in a biga with
bunes of the plebs, elected immediately after the c. TITINI, and underneath ROMA. (Eckhel, vol.
abolition of the decemvirate, B. C. 449. (Liv. iii. v. p. 325.)
54.)
2. SEX. TITINIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c.
439. (Liv. iv. 16.)
3. L. TITINIUS PANSA SACCUS, consular tribune,
B. C. 400 and 396. (Liv. v. 12, 18; Fasti Capit.)
4. M. TITINIUS C. F. C. N., magister equitum
to the dictator C. Junius Bubulcus, B. c. 302. Of k7fW2
(Liv. x. 1; Fasti Capit.) ~Y
5. P. TITINIUS, legatus of the praetor in the
war against the Gaullls B. C. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 21.)
6 and 7. M. and C. TIT1NII, tribunes of the COIN OF C. TITINIUS.
plebs, i. C. 193. (Liv. xxxv. 8,)
6. M. TITINIUS CURVUS, praetor urbanus B. C. TI'TIUS, a Roman sculptor, whose name appears
178. He levied troops at Rome in this year, and on two inscriptions, the one published by Boissard
gave an audience of the senate to Ti. Sempronius (Antiq. Roman. p. iii. fig. 132), the other in the
Gracchus and L. Postumius Albinus on their return Museum of the Louvre. From the latter it seems,
from Spain. (Liv. xl. 59, xli. 5, 6.) though there is some doubt as to the true reading
7. M. TITINIUS, praetor B. C. 178, received the of the inscription, that the artist's full name was
province of Nearer Spain with the title of procon- Titius Gemellus. (Sillig, Clatal. Artif. s. v.; R.
sul, and continued to govern it for four years, till Rochette. Lettre a IIL. Schorn, p. 419.) [P. S.]
B.c. 174. In B. C. 171 he was accused of mal- T'TIUS. ]. C. TITIus, a Roman eques, and
versation in the province, but was acquitted. (Liv. an orator of considerable merit, who, according to
xli. 15, 26, xliii. 2.) Cicero, obtained as much excellence as was possible
8. C. TITINoUS GADAEUS, one of the leaders without a knowledge of Greek literature, and
of the slaves in Sicily, betrayed an important fort without great practice. He left orations behind
to the praetor Licinius Nerva in B. C. 103. (Diod. him, and likewise some tragedies. Cicero makes
xxxvi. Eel. 1. p. 532, Wess.) him a contemporary of Antonius and Crassus, who
9. M. TITINIUS, a legatus of Nerva in the Ser- lived from B. C. 148 to 87; and this agrees with
vile war in Sicily, was defeated by the slaves. the statement of Macrobius, who calls kim vir
(Diod. 1. c.) aetatis Lucilianae, for Lucilius was born in B. C.
10. C. TITINIUS, the husband of Fannia, who 148, and died in 103. It appears, however, that
concealed Marius in B. C. 88. (Val. Max. viii. 2. Titius ought to be placed a little earlier, since Ma~ 3; Plut. Mar, 38, who erroneously calls him crobius likewise says that Titius spoke in favour of
Tinnius.) For particulars of the dispute between the Sumtuaria Lex of Fannius, which, we know, was
Titinius and Fannia, see FANNIA. enacted in B. C. 161. It is therefore probable that
11. CN. TITINIUS, a distinguished Roman eques, Titius spoke in favour of this law when he was
resisted the tribune M. Livius Drusus, B. C. 91. quite a young man. (Cic Brut. 45; Macrob. Sat.
(Cic. pro Cluent. 56.) ii. 9, 12; Meyer, Oratorum Romnanorum Frag12. TITINII, are mentioned among the people menta, p. 203, foll., 2d ed.)
of property proscribed by Sulla and murdered 2. C. TITIUS, a man who gained his living by
by Catiline in B. C. 81. (Q. Cic. de Pet. Cons. pleading causes, but certainly a different person
c. 2.) from the preceding, excited a mutiny of the soldiers
13. Q. TITINIUS, one of the judices at the against the consul L. Porcius Cato in B. C. 89, but
trial of Verres, was a brother (by the same mo- nevertheless escaped punishment. (Dion Cass.
ther) of C. Fannius, a Roman eques (Cic. Verr. i. Fragm. 114, p. 46, Reimar.) [CATO, No. 7.]
49). This Titinius carried on the business of a 3. SEX. TITIUS, a seditious tribune of the plebs,
money-lender, and as such Cicero had dealings B. C. 99, attempted to follow in the steps of Saturwith him. On the breaking out of the civil war ninus and Glaucia, who had perished in the prein B. C. 49, he espoused the cause of Pompey, but ceding year, but was vigorously resisted by the
his son, who had been adopted by one Pontius, orator M. Antonius, who was then consul. He was
and who is therefore called Pontius Titinianus, afterwards condemned for having a statue of Satursided with Caesar. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 4, v. 21. ~ 5, ninus in his house. Cicero says (Brut. 62) that
vii. 18. ~ 4, ix. 6. ~ 6, ix. 9, 18, 19.) Titius was fluent, and with a fair measure of acute