Titus

Flavian dynasty ruler

Titus is a Latin given name borne by a Roman emperor who completed the Colosseum and by a companion of the apostle Paul, recipient of a New Testament epistle.

The name appears in Shakespeare's early tragedy *Titus Andronicus*.

It remains in occasional use today, with a classical or literary flavor.

epistle

Philemon

Brief apostolic correspondence

Colossians · Thessalonians · pastoral · Paul · Crete · elders · overseers · doctrine · grace · good works

emperor

Rome

Italy's capital city

triumph · eruption · Pompeii · Herculaneum · Vesuvius · imperial · succession · beloved

name

Shakespeare

Elizabethan dramatist and poet

  • revengePunishing a wrongdoer
  • tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
  • RomanOf ancient Italy's capital

character · titular

Categories
Opposites
Flavian dynasty succession

TitusNero

Tyrannical first-century ruler

Caligula · Tiberius · Marcus Aurelius · Trajan · Augustus

Jewish-Roman relations

TitusHadrian

Second-century Roman emperor

relationship to jerusalem

TitusHerod the Great

Paranoid Judean monarch

Nehemiah

Phrases
Family

Titania, Tito

Familiarity
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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G