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Titus was born in Rome, probably on 30 December 39 AD, as the eldest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Domitilla the Elder.
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He was born as the only child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, consul in 89 whose family came from Nemausus ( modern Nîmes ).
A recently published inscription from Aphrodisias confirms that he was head of one of the Schools at Athens and gives his full name as Titus Aurelius Alexander.
Titus was an early Christian leader, a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles.
Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles.
The feast day of Titus was not included in the Tridentine Calendar.
His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.
Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus.
The term presbyter was often not yet clearly distinguished from the term overseer ( ἐπίσκοποι episkopoi, later exclusively used as meaning bishop ), as in, Titus 1: 5, 7 and 1 Peter 5: 1.
Decius was forced to withdraw his army to the north at Oescus, leaving Cniva ample time to ravage Moesia and finally capture Philippopolis in the summer of 251, in part with the help of its commander, a certain Titus Julius Priscus who had proclaimed himself Emperor.
Commemorative coins were issued of Claudius and his son Britannicus — who had been a friend of the Emperor Titus ( Titus was born in 39, Britannicus was born in 41 ).
Titus Flavius Clemens ( c. 150 – c. 215 ), known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
While Titus held a great many offices under the rule of his father, Domitian was left with honours but no responsibilities.
Vespasian died in 79 and was succeeded by Titus, whose own reign came to an unexpected end when he was struck by a fatal illness in 81.
Domitian was born in Rome on 24 October 51, the youngest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Flavia Domitilla Major.
Vespasian was assigned to lead the Roman army against the insurgents, with Titus — who had completed his military education by this time — in charge of a legion.
During the Jewish-Roman wars, he was likely taken under the care of his uncle Titus Flavius Sabinus II, at the time serving as city prefect of Rome ; or possibly even Marcus Cocceius Nerva, a loyal friend of the Flavians and the future successor to Domitian.
Unlike his brother Titus, Domitian was not educated at court.
Vespasian attempted to arrange a dynastic marriage between his youngest son and the daughter of Titus, Julia Flavia, but Domitian was adamant in his love for Domitia Longina, going so far as to persuade her husband, Lucius Aelius Lamia, to divorce her so that Domitian could marry her himself.
The family procession was headed by Vespasian and Titus, while Domitian, riding a magnificent white horse, followed with the remaining Flavian relatives.
A triumphal arch, the Arch of Titus, was erected at the south-east entrance to the Forum to commemorate the successful end of the war.
As the eldest and most experienced of Vespasian's sons, Titus shared tribunician power with his father, received seven consulships, the censorship, and was given command of the Praetorian Guard ; powers which left no doubt he was the designated heir to the Empire.
Titus and born
Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
Writing four centuries after Lucretius ' death, he enters under the 171st Olympiad the following line: " Titus Lucretius the poet is born.
As indicated by his name, he would have been born under the Flavian dynasty, under the reign of Titus, i. e. between 79 and 81 AD.
Titus is born at the beginning of the first book of the series, the son of Sepulchrave and Gertrude, and is an infant throughout the whole of Titus Groan ( novel ).
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet ( 20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876 ), born in Morley, near Leeds, was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
Reasoning from the fact that his praetorship was in 60 or 59 BC, Titus Labienus most likely was born in 99 or 98 BC.
Titus Oates was born in Oakham.
However, as Titus Livius observed, this was not possible, as Pythagoras was not born until more than a century after Numa's death, and was still living in the early days of the Republic.
Poppaea Sabina the Younger was born in Pompeii in AD 30 as the daughter of Titus Ollius and Poppaea Sabina the Elder.
# Titus Aelius Antoninus ( born after 150, died before 7 March 161 )
# Titus Aelius Aurelius ( born after 150, died before 7 March 161 )
They had two sons, Titus Flavius Vespasianus ( born in 39 ) and Titus Flavius Domitianus ( born in 51 ), and a daughter, Domitilla ( born in 45 ).
Titus and Rome
In Rome the cult of Diana should have been almost as old as the city itself as Varro mentions her in the list of deities to whom king Titus Tatius vowed a shrine.
Not wanting to risk being taken hostage by one side or the other, Titus abandoned the journey to Rome and rejoined his father in Judaea.
His brother Titus Flavius Sabinus II, as city prefect, commanded the entire city garrison of Rome.
A strong force drawn from the Judaean and Syrian legions marched on Rome under the command of Mucianus, while Vespasian himself travelled to Alexandria, leaving Titus in charge of ending the Jewish rebellion.
Thus traditional exegesis supposes that after his release Paul sailed from Rome into Asia, passing Crete by the way, and that there he left Titus " to set in order the things that were wanting.
It was inaugurated by Titus in 80 CE, the personal gift of the Emperor to the people of Rome, paid for by the Imperial share of booty after the Jewish Revolt.
In 71, he went to Rome in the entourage of Titus, becoming a Roman citizen and client of the ruling Flavian dynasty ( hence he is often referred to as Flavius Josephus — see below ).
Hearing of the doings at Rome the king, his sons and a party of retainers rode posthaste for the city, leaving Titus Herminius and Marcus Horatius in command of the troops at Ardea.
Until 2009, the earliest preserved representation of the menorah of the Temple was depicted in a frieze on the Arch of Titus, commemorating his triumphal parade in Rome following the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70.
Depiction of the Menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
The fate of the menorah used in the Second Temple is recorded by Josephus, who states that it was brought to Rome and carried along during the triumph of Vespasian and Titus.
Image: Menora Titus. jpg | A drawing on the depiction of the Menorah seen on the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy.
The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy ( Discorsi ) nominally discuss a classical history of early Ancient Rome.
Sophronia, albeit she deems herself wife to Gisippus, is wife to Titus Quintius Fulvus, and goes with him to Rome, where Gisippus arrives in indigence, and deeming himself scorned by Titus, to compass his own death, avers that he has slain a man.
* The Arch of Titus is completed in Rome.
At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.
The 2005 television series Rome gives a fictionalized account of Caesar's rise and fall, featuring Kevin McKidd as the character of Lucius Vorenus and Ray Stevenson as the character of Titus Pullo.
The format is that of the Arch of Titus in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife Plotina and sister Marciana, would figure as a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port.
Under the rule of his father, Titus gained notoriety in Rome serving as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, and for carrying on a controversial relationship with the Jewish queen Berenice.
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