TITUS TATIUS

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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). After various indecisive conflicts
the latter, who had become Roman matrons, intervened and prevailed upon the combatants to cease fighting. A formal treaty was then arranged between the Romans and Sabines, whereby

Romulus

ROMULUS

and Tatius were to be

joint

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

and equal rulers of the Roman

people

PEOPLE

. 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. After this arrangement had lasted for five years it came to an end by the death of Tatius, who was killed out of revenge by the inhabitants of Lavinium. According to Mommsen, the story of his death, (for which see

Plutarch

PLUTARCH
PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

) looka like an historical version of the abolition of blood-revenge. Tatius, who in some respects resembles Remus, is not an historical personage, but the eponymous hero of the religious college called Sodales Titii. As to this

body

BODY

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

ROMULUS

in honour of Tatius, at whose grave its members were bound to offer a yearly sacrifice. The sodales fell into abeyance at the end of the republic, but were revived by

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

and existed to the end of the 2nd

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

A.D.

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

himself and the emperor

Claudius

CLAUDIUS
CLAUDIUS [TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS NERO GERMANICUS]
CLAUDIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
CLAUDIUS,
MATTHIAS
- MATTHIAS
- MATTHIAS (1557-1619)
(174o-1815)

belonged to the college, and all its members were of senatorial rank. Varro derives the name from the Titiae ayes which were used by the priests in certain auguries.
See Livy i. 10-.14; Tacitus, Annals, i. 54, H;st. ii. 95;

Dion

DION

. Halic. ii. 3652;

Plutarch

PLUTARCH
PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

, Romulus, 1924; Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung (1885) iii. 446; Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bk. ix. 3, 14; x. 5.

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