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

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ness, but so extravagant in his gestures, that a Actium he put Antony's cavalry to the rout. (Dion
dance was called after his name. (Cic. de Orat. ii. Cass. 1. 3, 13; Plut. Ant. 58; Veil. Pat. ii. 83.)
11, 66, pro C. Rabir. 9.) 14. Q. TITIUS, occurs on coins, but cannot be
4. L. TITIUS, a Roman citizen residingatAgri- referred with certainty to any of the preceding
gentum, was robbed of his ring by Verres. (Cic. persons. Whom the head on the obverse repreYerr. iv. 26.) sents is uncertain: on the reverse is Pegasus.
5. T. TITIUS T. F. one of the legates of Cn. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 325.)
Pompeius, when the latter was intrusted with the
superintendence of the corn-market. (Cic. ad Farn.
xiii. 58.)
6. C. TsTIUS L. F. RUFUS, praetor urbanus B..
50. (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 58.)
7 and 8. C. TITIUS STRABO and L. TITIUS
STRABO. [STRABO.]
9. Q. TITIUS, was sent by Caesar into Epeirus
in B. C. 48 to obtain corn for his troops. (Caes.
B. C. iii. 42.) COIN OF Q. TITIUS.
10. L. TITrIus, a tribune of the soldiers in
the Alexandrine war, B. C. 48. (Hirt. B. Alex. TI'TIUS AQUILI'NUS, consul under Ha57.) drian, A. D 125, with Valerius Asiaticins. (Fasti.)
11. P. TITIUS, tribune of the plebs, B.c. 43, TI'TIUS JULIA'NUS. [TETTIUS, No. 3.]
proposed the law for the creation of the triumvirs TI'TIUS PERPE'TUUS. [PERPETIJUS.]
in that year. Shortly before this he had deprived TI'TIUS PRO'CULUS. [PROCULUS.]
his colleague P. Servilius Casca of his tribunate, TI'TIUS RUFUS. [RuFus.]
because the latter fled from Rome, fearing the TI'TIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINUS.]
vengeance of Octavianus on account of the part he TI'TIUS SEPTI'MIUS. [SEPTIMIUS.]
had taken in the assassination of Caesar. Titius TITU'RIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINUS.]
died soon after, during his year of office, thus con- M. TITU'RNIUS RUFUS, recommended by
firming the superstition, that whoever deprived a Cicero to Acilius B. C. 46 (ad Famn. xiii. 39).
colleague of his magistracy, never lived to see the TITUS FLA'VIUS SABI'NUS VESPASIend of his own official year. (Appian, B. C. iv. 7; A'NUS, Roman emperor, A. n. 79-81, commonly
Dion Cass. xlvi. 49; Cic. ad Fans. x. 12. ~ 3, x. called by his praenomen Titus, was the son of the
21. ~ 3.) emperor Vespasianus and his wife Flavia Domi12. M. TITIUS, was proscribed by the triumvirs tilla. He was born on the 30th of December,
in B. C. 43, and escaped to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. A. D. 40, about the time when Caius Caligula was
He married Munatia, the sister of L. Munatius murdered, in a mean house and a small chamber,
Plancus, the orator, by whom he had a son [No. which were still shown in the time of Suetonius.
13]. (Dion Cass. xlviii. 30; Vell. Pat. ii. 83.) From his childhood he manifested a good disposi13. M. TITIUS, the son of the preceding, raised tion. He was well made, and had an agreeable
a fleet on his own account during the civil wars countenance, but it was remarked that his belly
which followed the death of Caesar, but was taken was somewhat large. (Sueton. Titus, 3.) Yet he
prisoner in B. C. 40 off the coast of Gallia Narbo- was active, and very expert in all bodily exercises;
nensis by Menas,'the admiral of Sex. Pompeius. and he had a great aptitude for learning. lie was
lie was, however, spared by Sex. Pompeius, chiefly brought up in the imperial household with Britanfor the sake of his father, who was then living with nicus, the son of Claudius, in the same way and
Pompeius in Sicily. By the peace of Misenum, with the same instructors. It is said that he was
concluded in the following year (B. C. 39) between a guest at Nero's table, when Britannicus was
Pompeius and the triumvirs, Titius returned to poisoned, and that he also tasted of the same
Italy (Dion Cass. xlviii. 30). Titius now entered deadly cup. He afterwards erected a gilded statue
the service of Antonius and served as his quaestor to the memory of Britannicus, on the Palatiuln.
in the campaign against the Parthians, in B. C. 36 Titus was an accomplished musician, and a most
(Plut. Ant. 42). In the following year (B. C. 35), expert shorthand writer, an art in which the RoTitius received the command of some troops from mans excelled.
L. Munatius Plancus, the governor of Syria, in order When a young man he served as tribunus milito oppose Sex. Pompeius, who had fled from Sicily tum in Britain and in Germany, with great credit;
to Asia. Pompeius was shortly after taken pri- and he afterwards applied himself to the labours of
soner and brought to Miletus, where he was mur- the forum. His first wife was Arricidia, daughter
dered by Titius, although the latter owed his life of Tertullus, a Roman eques, and once praefectus
to him. Titius, however, had probably received praetorio; and, on her death, he married Marcia
orders from Plancus or Antonius to put him to Furnilla, a woman of high rank, whonr he divorced
death [PoMPEIus, p. 491, a]. (Appian, B. C. v. after having a daughter by her, who was called
134, 136, 140, 142, 144; Dion Cass. xlix. 18; Julia Sabina. After having been quaestor, he had
Veil. Pat. ii. 79). This, however, was not the the command of a legion, and served under his
only act of ingratitude committed by Titius, for in father in the Jewish wars. He took the cities of
B. C. 32 he deserted Antonius, and went over to Tarichaea, Gamala, and other places.
Octavianus along with his uncle Plancus. He was When Galba was proclaimed emperor, A. D. 68,
rewarded for his treachery by being made one of Titus was sent by his father to pay his respects to
the consuls (suffecti) in B. C. 31. He served under the new emperor, and probably to ask for the proOctavianus in the war against his former patron, motion to which his merits entitled him; but hearand, along with Statilius Taurus, had the command ing of the death of Galba at Corinth, he returned
of the land forces. Shortly before the battle of to his father in Palestine, who was already think4E 4