Christian leader and companion of Saint Paul. An epistle of the New Testament, ascribed to Paul, is addressed to him. in full Titus Vespasianus Augustus orig. Titus Flavius Vespasianus born Dec. 30, AD 39 died Sept. 13, 81 Roman emperor (79-81). He commanded a Roman legion in Judaea under his father, Vespasian. After Vespasian became emperor (69), he gave Titus full command in Judaea, whereupon Titus captured and destroyed Jerusalem (70). He later took charge of the empire's general military operations. As emperor he developed goodwill in Rome for his extravagant spending; his projects included the completion of the Colosseum. He died suddenly, probably from natural causes, though there were rumours that he was poisoned by Domitian. Titus Livius Titus Lucretius Carus Titus Flavius Vespasianus Titus Vespasianus Augustus Titus Flavius Clemens Flamininus Titus Quinctius Oates Titus Titus Petronius Niger Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius Titus Flavius Domitianus
a novel by the British writer Mervyn Peake. It tells the story of Titus, the 77th Earl of Groan, in his castle called Gormenghast, and it is full of strange and frightening characters (1946)
born Sept. 15, 1649, Oakham, Rutland, Eng. died July 12/13, 1705, London English fabricator of the Popish Plot. Son of a Baptist preacher, he was ordained in the Church of England. Although jailed for perjury in 1674, he became chaplain to the Protestants in the household of the Catholic 6th duke of Norfolk in 1677. In 1678, with the fanatically anti-Catholic Israel Tonge, he invented the Popish Plot, a fictitious Jesuit conspiracy to kill Charles II and place his Catholic brother James (later James II) on the throne. Oates's testimony caused some 35 persons to be executed, but inconsistencies in his story emerged, and he was convicted of perjury and imprisoned in 1685; released in 1688, he died in obscurity
born 227 BC died 174 Roman general and consul (198 BC). As consul he tried to formulate a peace treaty with Philip V of Macedonia, but negotiations broke down and fighting broke out. He defeated Philip at Cynoscephalae (197) and granted freedom to the Greeks (196), for which he was hailed as a saviour. He kept Roman troops in Greece until 194. After the defeat of Antiochus III and Aetolia at Thermopylae (191), he helped reestablish peace in Greece