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  TITUS - LoveToKnow Article on TITUS
(J. TITUS, FLAVIUS SABINUS VESPASIANUS, Roman emperor from A.D. 79-81, son of the emperor Vespasian, was born on the 3oth of December A.D. 40 (or 41).
In 68 he was sent by his father to congratulate the newly proclaimed emperor, Galba; but, hearing of Galba's death and of the general confusion in the Roman world, he returned to Palestine, having in the meantime consulted the oracle of the Paphian Venus and received a favorable answer.
Titus died on the I3th of September 81.
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 TITUS TATIUS - Online Information article about TITUS TATIUS
Romulus and Tatius were to be See also:
Tatius, who in some respects resembles Remus, is not an historical personage, but the See also:
Tacitus expresses two different opinions, representing two different traditions: that it was introduced either by Tatius himself to preserve the Sabine cult in Rome; or by Romulus in See also:
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Titus never got the hang of that, and instead found he could fit into one room of his memory library a sort of clockwork approximation of the goings of all the planets about the sun and their axes, along with a few of the more interesting moons, comets, and stars.
Titus didn’t think to think as he wandered through the tunnels, hugging the walls and feeling for turnings, and he can’t really be blamed because this is not at all the sort of thing a Classics professor is trained to deal with.
Titus thought he knew which way he was going, though he had not seen anything as he wandered out; but he remembered his turnings, and the times and speeds of each leg, and though his memory had somehow (how?) failed him on his way out, it functioned perfectly on the way in.
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 Titus Tatius --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It is unlikely that either Titus Tatius or Romulus was a historical personage.
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.
According to tradition, the cult was established by Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines.
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 The Baldwin Project: Romulus by Jacob Abbott
For four or five years after the union of the Sabines with the Romans, Titus Tatius was in some way or other associated with Romulus in the government of the united kingdom.
Titius Tatius shared the supreme power with Romulus at Rome for several years, and the two monarchs continued during this time to exercise their joint power in a much more harmonious manner than would have been supposed possible.
Tatius was compelled to assent to these measures, though he yielded very reluctantly.
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 TITUS TATIUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - TITUS TATIUS - JCSM's Study Center
TITUS TATIUS, in Roman legend, the Sabine king of Cures, who waged war upon the Romans to avenge the rape of the Sabine women (see RoMU1.us).
Rome was to retain its name and each citizen was to be called a Roman, but as a community they were to be called Quirites (q.v.); the Sabines were to be incorporated in the state and admitted into the tribes and curies.
Tatius, who in some respects resembles Remus, is not an historical personage, but the eponymous hero of the religious college called Sodales Titii.
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 ROMULUS - LoveToKnow Article on ROMULUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His most formidable foe was Titus Tatius (q.v.), king of the Sabines, but after an obstinate struggle he and Romulus united their forces and reigned side by side till Tatius was slain at Lavinium in the course of a blood-feud with Laurentum.
Consus, at whose festival the rape took place, was a god of the earth and crops, the giver of fruitfulness in plants and animals.
It is generally agreed that the capture of the Capitol by Titus Tatius may contain an historical element, pointing to an early conquest of Rome by the Sabines, of which there are some indications.
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 Titus Livius, The History of Rome, Book I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nor did they confine their remonstrances to their own cities; they flocked from all sides to Titus Tatius, the king of the Sabines, and sent formal deputations to him, for his was the most influential name in those parts.
She remembered that the Sabine Tatius had reigned there, that Numa had been summoned from Cures to fill the throne, that Ancus himself was sprung from a Sabine mother, and could not trace his nobility beyond Numa.
Tatius was not only a foreigner, but was made king after he had been their enemy; Numa, an entire stranger to the City, had been called to the throne without any seeking it on his part.
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 Titus Tatius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Sabine women, however, convinced Tatius and ((Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome) Romulus to reconcile and subsequently they ruled jointly over the Romans and Sabines.
Tatius died (possibly assassinated) soon after, leaving Romulus to rule alone, and is thus not counted as one of the traditional "Seven (Click link for more info and facts about Kings of Rome) Kings of Rome".
(Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)) Livy reports the tradition, but Tatius' actual existence and status is entirely uncertain.
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 Titus Tatius Online Research :: Information about Titus Tatius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Sabine women, however, convinced Tatius and Romulus and Remus to reconcile and subsequently they ruled jointly over the Romans and Sabines.
Tatius died (possibly assassinated) soon after, leaving Romulus to rule alone, and is thus not counted as one of the traditional "Seven Kings of Rome ".
Marcus Terentius Varro mentions him as a king of Rome who enlarged the city and established certain Cult, but he may just have been the Eponym of the tribe Tities, or even an invention to serve as a precedent for collegial magistracy.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 660 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Ramnes were supposed to have derived their name from Romulus, the Tities from Titus Tatius the Sabine king, and the Luceres from Lucumo, an Etruscan chief who had assisted Romulus in the war against the Sabines.
Each tribe contained ten euriae, which received their names from the thirty Sabine women who had brought about the peace between the Romans and their own people.
The name of Ilamnes undoubtedly comes from the same root as that of Romus or Romulus, and in like manner that of Tities is con­nected with Titus Tatius.
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 Titus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
After service in Britain and Germany, Titus commanded a legion under his father, Vespasian, in Judaea (67).
Following the emperor Nero's death in June 68, Titus was energetic in promoting his father's candidacy for the imperial crown.
His name was Titus Pomponius, that of Atticus being given him later from his long residence in Athens (88–65 BC) and his intimate acquaintance with Greek literature and language; he assumed the name of Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus when his...
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 Quirinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Also according to legend the Quirinal is associated with Titus Tatius and the Sabines.
When Romulus and Titus Tatius joined their communities together there was little distinction between Quirinus and Mars, and later Romans made some effort to reconcile the two.
Afterwards, jointly ruling with Titus Tatius, the presence of Romulus safeguarded the new city of Rome, its vigilant and armed populace led by an experienced soldier king.
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 APA/AIA 99 talk-Lat. Ethn. Abs.
Tarpeia was a Roman matron who, during the war between Romulus and Titus Tatius, betrayed the Roman citadel to the Sabines out of her desire to obtain Sabine gold.
Both writers imply that the Sabines of their own day were not wealthy, but that this was by circumstance and not by choice.
Moreover, in the Annales of the early second century poet Ennius, Titus Tatius seems to have been portrayed as a tyrant&emdash;once again, a characterization more in line with an Etruscan king than a Sabine one.
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 The Kings of Ancient Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Unsurprisingly, they found it difficult to find wives, so they kidnapped women from the neighboring Sabine tribe, sparking a war which only ended when Romulus agreed to make the Sabine king, Titus Tatius, his co-ruler.
Five years later, associates of Tatius killed some ambassadors during a robbery.
Tatius shielded the culprits from prosecution, so the victims' relatives attacked and killed him.
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belonging to Tatius (to the gens of the Tatii)
Titus Tatius is a legendary Sabine king who ruled with Romulus, the founder of Rome.
Titus was a companion of St Paul and the first bishop of Crete.
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 History of Magical Creatures: Wolves
It was during this event that the Romans lashed out upon the virgins of the community and carried them away.
Romulus' reign was tainted with this story of the rape of the Sabine women, whose tribe, under the leadership of Titus Tatius, allegedly infiltrated the new Latin lands and battled with the inhabitants of Latium, thus forming a union of the two tribes early in the history of ancient Rome.
Unfortunately, the peace was short-lived, and Titus Tatius, who was at this time co-reigning with Romulus, was killed in a confrontation.
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 Flora
According to legend, the cults of Flora and other Sabine divinities were brought to Rome by King Titus Tatius in the eighth century bce.
The high priest of Flora in Rome was the Flamen Floralis, one of the priesthoods believed to have been established by King Numa in the seventh century bce.
This was probably the original temple given to Flora and may have been built on the site of the altar dedicated to the goddess by Titus Tatius.
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 PREHISTORIC & ANCIENT WORLD - ITALY & ADJACENT AREAS TO 476 A.D.: Coins and Artefacts (Archaeological & Ethnological) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Towards the end of the republic those members of the Tituria gens (or clan) with the cognomen Sabinus claimed to be descended from the Sabines, even from King Titus Tatius himself.
Titus Flavius Domitianus, was the younger son of Vespasian.
Antoninus Pius (Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus) was much revered --- as marked by this Consecratio denarius struck by his successor Marcus Aurelius in 161 A.D. On its reverse is the ornate four-tier ustrinum built to house his, and his wife Faustina's funeral pyres.
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 NUMA POMPILIUS - Online Information article about NUMA POMPILIUS
Cures, and his wife was the daughter of See also:
Titus Tatius, the Sabine colleague of See also:
(1898), where Numa is identified with Titus Tatius and made out to be a See also:
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 The Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Sabine man where furious and, led by their king Titus Tatius, made war on Romulus.
When the fighting had reached its peak the Sabine women, who had grown fond of their Roman husbands, rushed between the ranks and begged both sides to make peace.
So the battle was stopped, Romulus and Titus Tatius ruled together over the two peoples until Titus Tatius was killed in battle.
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 Tarpeia and Tarchon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the usual story Tarpeia accepted a bribe from the Sabine king, Titus Tatius, to let him and his men inside the fortress by night.
She asked for her reqard to be what the soldiers wore on their left arms, expecting golden armlets, but instead they repaid her treachery by crushing her to death beneath their shields.
Two variants suggest that Tarpeia was moved, not by greed, but either by love of the Sabine king, Titus Tatius, or by patriotism, since her intention was to disarm the Sabines and deliver them up defenseless to the Romans.
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 Tarpeian Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
About 500 BC, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh legendary king of Rome, levelled the top of the rock, removing the shrines built by the Sabines, and built a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus on the intermontium, the area between the two summits of the hill.
The rock was also the site of a temple of Saturn, which contained the Roman treasury that Julius Caesar raided in 49 B.C. The hill was later retaken by the Sabine king Titus Tatius.
It is believed (see Grant, below) that at this time the Etruscan name Tarquinius was modified to the Sabine name Tarpeia.
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 Sabine Women
As one of the conditions of the peace treaty, Romulus had to accept Titus Tatius, the Sabine king, as his
However, Titus Tatius died soon afterward, so Romulus was again the
Romulus ruled for many years, until one day he mysteriously disappeared in the midst of a violent storm.
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 ROMULUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - ROMULUS - JCSM's Study Center
Romulus strengthened his band by offering an " asylum " to outcasts and fugitives, found wives for them by capture and waged war with their kinsmen.
His most formidable foe was Titus Tatius (q.v.), king of the Sabines, but after an obstinate struggle he and Romulus united their forces and reigned side by side till Tatius was slain at Lavinium in the course of a blood-
It is generally agreed that the capture of the Capitol by 'Titus Tatius may contain an historical
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 Facts about Rome, Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The result of this was that the Sabine King, Titus Tatius, declared war on Rome.
Romulus and Titus Tatius became joint rulers until Titus Tatius fell in battle and Romulus became sole ruler until one day disappearing in the midst of a violent storm and becoming the god Quirinus.
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