Titia (gens)

Origin

Praenomina

Branches and cognomina

Members

• Gaius Titius, an eques of the 2nd century BC, and an orator of considerable merit, praised by Cicero.
• Gaius Titius, a pleader of causes, who excited a mutiny of the soldiers against the consul Lucius Porcius Cato in 89 BC, and escaped punishment.
• Sextus Titius, tribune of the plebs in 99 BC, attempted to follow in the footsteps of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, but was resisted by the consul Marcus Antonius.
• Quintus Titius, triumvir monetalis in 90 BC.
• Lucius Titius, a Roman citizen at Agrigentum, who was robbed of his ring by Verres.
• Titus Titius T. f., the legate of Gnaeus Pompeius, when the latter was entrusted with the superintendence of the corn-market.
• Gaius Titius L. f. Rufus, praetor urbanus in 50 BC.
• Quintus Titius, sent by Caesar into Epirus in 48 BC to obtain corn for his troops.
• Lucius Titius, a military tribune during the Alexandrine war, 48 BC.
• Gaius Titius Strabo, an opponent of Caesar at the time of his death.
• Lucius Titius Strabo, an eques, whom Cicero introduced to Marcus Junius Brutus.
• Publius Titius, tribunus plebis in 43 BC, proposed the law for the creation of the second triumvirate.
• Marcus Titius, proscribed by the triumvirs in 43 BC, but escaped to Sextus Pompeius in Sicilia. He married Munatia, the sister of the orator Lucius Munatius Plancus.
• Marcus Titius M. f., consul suffectus in 31 BC, routed the cavalry of Marcus Antonius shortly before the Battle of Actium.
• Titius Julianus, probably a mistake for Tettius Julianus.
• Titius Septimius, a minor poet, about whose welfare Quintus Horatius Flaccus inquired in 20 BC.
• Titius Sabinus, an eques, and friend of Germanicus, betrayed by Sejanus and put to death.
• Titius Rufus, put to death in the reign of Caligula, for saying that the senate thought differently from what it said.
• Titius Proculus, put to death in AD 48, because he had been privy to the adulteries of Gaius Silius and Messalina.
• Marcus Titius M. f. Lustricius Bruttianus, a decorated soldier who had won both the mural and vallary crowns, served as military tribune, plebeian aedile, quaestor, and praetor. He was consul suffectus in AD 108, and subsequently governor of Achaia. Pliny the younger reports that he was falsely accused by a colleague, Montanius Atticinus, whose misconduct he had uncovered, but acquitted by Trajan.
• Lucius Titius Epidius Aquilinus, consul in AD 125.
• Lucius Titius Plautius Aquilinus, consul ordinarius in AD 162.
• Titius Gemellus, a sculptor, of uncertain date.

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