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 Titus
Titus, the elder son of emperor Vespasian, was born in AD 39.
Titus played a leading role in the negotiations which led to his father being proclaimed emperor by the eastern provinces.
Titus visited the stricken area, announced a state of emergency, set up a relief fund into which was put any property of victims who died with no heirs, offered practical assistance in rehousing survivors, and organized a senatorial commission to provide whatever help it could.
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 Titus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Titus was the elder son of the emperor (Emperor of Rome and founder of the Flavian dynasty who consolidated Roman rule in Germany and Britain and reformed the army and brought prosperity to the empire; began the construction of the Colosseum (9-79)) Vespasian and Domitilla.
Titus succeeded his father in 79, although some Senators were opposed to his relationship with Berenice, whom they compared to a new (Beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)) Cleopatra.
Had Titus lived long enough, he may have suffered from the same excesses as previous emperors; instead, he was used as a model by later emperors, especially those known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Five Good Emperors) Five Good Emperors.
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Titus succeeded his father in 79, although some Senators were opposed to his relationship with Berenice, whom they compared toa new Cleopatra.
Titus was emperorduring the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 and the consequentdestruction of life and property in the cities and resort communities around the Bay of Naples, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Had Titus lived long enough, he may have suffered from the same excesses as previousemperors; instead, he was used as a model by later emperors, especially those known as the Five Good Emperors.
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 Titus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Titus Flavius Vespasianus (December 30, 39–September 13, 81) ruled the Roman Empire from 79 to 81.
Titus succeeded his father as Emperor in 79, although some Senators were opposed to his relationship with Berenice, whom they compared to a new Cleopatra.
Translation: "Friends, I lost a day.", spoken by Titus in the context that he has done no good deed during that day.
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Titus Flavius Vespasianus (December 30, AD 39 - September 13, 81) ruled the Roman Empire from 79 to 81.
In 64 he returned to Rome and married Arrecina Tertulla, who died, and then Marcia Furnilla, whom he was forced to divorce.
Titus accompanied Vespasian to the east in 66 to put down the Jewish Rebellion.
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 Vespasian And Titus -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (November 18, CE 9 – June 23, 79), originally known as Titus Flavius Vespasianus and best known as Vespasian, was the emperor of Rome from 69 to 79.
Titus was emperor during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 and the consequent destruction of life and property in the cities and resort communities around the Bay of Naples,
Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the ''Acts of the Apostles''.
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 IMPERIUM - Character
Titus Flavius (more properly Vespasian, but that name is often reserved for his uncle) is the 34-year old Commander of the XI Legio Sabini (the Sabine Legion) and the Conqueror of Britannia.
When his father Gaius Flavius Pulcher (no relation to the Tullius Pulchers) married Vespasiana (sister of Valerius Vespasianus), the family was catapulted into the highest levels of Roman society.
In 55, when his father retired from public duty, Titus Flavius took command of the Sabine Legion and was sent to Palestine to quell rebellions in the area.
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 Titus
Public opinion was outraged, and Titus, though he had promised Berenice marriage, felt obliged to send her back to the East.
The forebodings of the people were agreeably disappointed, for Titus put an end to prosecutions for high treason, and the delatores (informers) were scourged and expelled from the city.
Titus died on the I3th of September 81.
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 Vespasian
Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus was born in AD 9 at Reate, north of Rome.
On his son Titus' return to Rome from Palestine in AD 71, Vespasian formally made him his associate in government, granting him the title of Caesar, and appointed him commander of the imperial guard, a sound move considering the role teh praetorians had plaid in establishing and overthrowing previous rulers.
Titus was fast to act and neither of the two conspirators survived.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Vespasian
Vespasian was born at Falacrina near Sabine Reate on 17 November, A.D. 9, the son of T. Flavius Sabinus, a successful tax collector and banker, and Vespasia Polla.
Daughter of a treasury clerk and former mistress of an African knight, Flavia lacked the social standing and family connections that the politically ambitious usually sought through marriage.
Alienus Caecina were condemned by Titus for conspiracy, the former committing suicide, the latter executed in A.D. As Suetonius claims, however, in financial matters Vespasian always put revenues to the best possible advantage, regardless of their source.
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 TITUS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 69, the Year_of_the_Four_Emperors, Vespasian returned to Rome to claim the throne, and left Titus behind to put down the rebellion, which he did in 70 with four legions.
Titus was emperor during the eruption of Mount_Vesuvius in 79 and the consequent destruction of life and property in the cities and resort communities around the Bay_of_Naples, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Had Titus lived long enough, he may have suffered from the same excesses as previous emperors; instead, he was used as a model by later emperors, especially those known as the Five_Good_Emperors.
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Titus Flavius Vespasianus ("Vespasian") survived the civil wars of 68-69 AD as undisputed ruler of the Roman world.
Titus played a major role in the elevation and reign of his father.
Titus, in a comment on his deathbed that he had done only one thing wrong in his life, is sometimes interpreted as regretting not preventing Domitian's succession.
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 BBC - History - Titus (AD 39-81; Roman emperor AD 79-81)
Titus was the tenth Roman emperor, in succession to his father Vespasian (both men in fact shared the same name, Titus Flavius Vespasianus).
Unlike his father and younger brother Domitian, Titus grew up with grand ideas, since he had been brought up in the court of Claudius as a companion of the emperor's son Britannicus.
When Nero died (68), Titus was deputed to convey Vespasian's congratulations to the new emperor Galba, but thought better of it, and turned back to help his father prepare his bid for power.
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 Titus Flavius Vespasianus Biography / Biography of Titus Flavius Vespasianus Biography Biography
The Roman general and emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus (39-81) was responsible for the conquest of Jerusalem in 70, thus ending the Jewish revolt against Rome.
Titus was the son of Vespasian, a rising official in the imperial service, and his wife, Domitilla.
Titus was handsome, talented, and athletically skilled, and he enjoyed a favored position in the court of the emperor Claudius I (41-54).
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 DOMITIAN - LoveToKnow Article on DOMITIAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After the fall of Vitellius he was saluted as Caesar, or prince imperial, by the troops, obtained the city praetorship, and was entrusted with the administration of Italy till his fathers return from the East.
The death of Titus, if not hastened by foul means, was at least eagerly welcomed by his brother.
Domitians succession (on the i3th of September 81) was unquestioned, and it would seem that he had intended, so far as his weak volition and mean abilities would allow, to govern well.
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 VESPASIAN - LoveToKnow Article on VESPASIAN
After having served with the army in Thrace and been quaestor in Crete ahd Cyrene, Vespasian rose to be aedile and praetor, having meanwhile married Flavia Domitilla, the daughter of a Roman knight, by whom he had two sons, Titus and Domitian, afterwards emperors.
Having already served in Germany, in the years 43 and 44, in the reign of Claudius, he distinguished himself in command of the 2nd legion in Britain under Aulus Plautius.
Some of the philosophers who talked idly of the good old times of the republic, and thus indirectly encouraged conspiracy, provoked him into reviving the obsolete penal laws against this class, but only one, Helvidius Priscus, was put to death, and he had affronted the emperor by studied insults.
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Titus appears to have erected a palace for himself adjoining; for the Laocoon, which is mentioned by Pliny as standing in this palace, was found in the neighbouring ruins.
It consumed a large portion of the city, and among the public buildings destroyed were the temples of Serapis and Isis, that of Neptune, the baths of Agrippa, the Septa, the theatres of Balbus and Pompey, the buildings and library of Augustus on the Palatine, and the temple of Jupiter in the Capitol.
The love of this emperor and his son Titus for the rural retirement of their paternal acres in the Sabine country, forms a striking contrast to the vicious attachment of such tyrants as Tiberius and Caligula for the luxurious scenes of Baiae, or the libidinous orgies of Capri.
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 Titus Tatius --  Encyclopædia Britannica
According to tradition, the cult was established by Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines.
Titus Tatius (according to tradition, the Sabine king who ruled with Romulus) is said to have introduced her cult to Rome; her temple stood near the Circus Maximus.
He was pardoned by Emperor Vespasian and became a partisan of Rome, serving under Titus in the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70.
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 AllRefer.com - Titus, Roman emperor (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
On both occasions Titus was active in lending aid to the distressed.
Although Titus was not friendly with his brother and successor, Domitian, there is no reason to believe the rumor that it was Domitian who arranged his death.
The Arch of Titus, now restored and standing outside the ancient entrance to the Palatine, was erected by Domitian to commemorate Titus' conquest of Jerusalem.
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 Titus Flavius - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus (born December 30, AD 39, died September 13, 81; ruled 79-81).
Titus was emperor during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the consequent destruction of life and property in the cities and resort communities around the Bay of Naples.
The Triumphal Arch of Titus, which stands at one entrance to the Roman Forum, memorializes the Triumph he was awarded for his defeat of the Jewish Rebellion (AD 66-70) and sack of Jerusalem in AD 70.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vespasian
Titus, who was to become one of the most beneficent pagan rulers in history, was associated as Caesar in his father's administration.
The dignity of the Roman Senate was revived, largely by elimination of the disreputable elements; the law of treason, an odious legal cloak for tyranny, was abrogated; the courts of law were reformed; military discipline was placed upon a fairly secure basis.
By his wife, Flavia Domitilla, he left two sons, Titus and Domitian, and a daughter, Domitilla, through whom the name of Vespasian's empress was passed on to a granddaughter who is revered as a confessor of the Faith.
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 Marius Flavius Vespasianus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Marius Flavius Icilius was born in 3 AD to a Roman family who's prestige had been waning since the fall of the Republic.
Titus had his own ambitions now that Nero was dead -- and there were people in Rome declaring him to be the next Emperor.
When Titus Flavius Vespasianus became Emperor in 70 AD, Marius -- now a 66 year old ghoul frozen at a biological age of 34 -- laughed himself into a small fit of amusement and threw a celebration party that was the talk of the legion for the next several years.
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 VESPASIAN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (November_18, 9 – June_23, 79), originally known as Titus Flavius Vespasianus and best known as Vespasian, was the emperor of Rome from 69 to 79.
He was founder of the Flavian_dynasty and ascended the throne in the end of the Year_of_the_four_emperors.
Some of the philosophers who talked idly of the good old times of the Republic, and thus indirectly encouraged conspiracy, provoked him into reviving the obsolete penal laws against this profession, but only one, Helvidius_Priscus, was put to death, and he had affronted the Emperor by studied insults.
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 BBC - History - Vespasian (AD 9-79; Roman emperor AD 69-79)
Vespasian (Titus Flavius Vespasianus) was the ninth Roman emperor, in succession to Galba (AD 68-9), Otho (69) and Vitellius (69).
Vespasian finally arrived in Rome in the late summer of 70, having left his elder son Titus in charge in Judaea; Jerusalem was taken in August 70 and its population enslaved.
He was the first emperor to be succeeded by his son, and the first since Augustus to die a natural death (assuming that Tiberius was murdered).
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 TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS AUGUSTUS
Titus, who had the same cognomen with his father, was the darling and delight of mankind; so much did the natural genius, address, or good fortune he possessed tend to conciliate the favour of all.
The senate assembled in haste, before they could be summoned by proclamation, and locking the doors of their house at first, but afterwards opening them, gave him such thanks, and heaped upon him such praises, now he was dead, as they never had done whilst he was alive and present amongst them.
TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIAN, the younger, was the first prince who succeeded to the empire by hereditary right; and having constantly acted, after his return from Judaea, as colleague with his father in the administration, he seemed to be as well qualified by experience as he was by abilities, for conducting the affairs of the empire.
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