Titinius
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TITINIO Proper-name noun: masculine ablative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine dative singular of Titinius
- a Roman comic poet of the ante-class. period; see the fragments of his writings in Com. Rel. pp. 115-137 Rib.; Varr. ap. Charis. p. 215 P.
a Roman dramatist. Works Togatae
Titinius' productions belonged to the department of the Comoedia Togata, is commended by Varro on account of the skill with which he developed the characters of the personages whom he brought upon the stage. " Ἤθη nulli alii servare convenit quam Titinio et Terentio; πάθη vero Trabea et Attilius et Caecilius facile moverant." From the terms in which this criticism is expressed, it has been inferred that Titinius was younger than Caecilius, but older than Terence, and hence that he must have flourished about B. C. 170.
The names of upwards of fourteen plays together with a considerable number of short fragments, the language of which bears an antique stamp, have been preserved by the grammarians, especially Nonius Marcellus. Editions
The fragments will be found collected in the Poetarum Latii Scenicorum Fragmenta of Bothe, vol. 2.8vo. Lips. 1834, p. 58, and in the essay of Neukirch, De Fabula Togata Romanorum. 8vo. Lips. 1833. p. 97. Further Information
See Varr. L. L. lib. v. as quoted by Charisius, p. 215, ed. Putsch; Seren. Sammon. de Re Med. 5.1044, where, according to one (false) reading, the name of the author would be Vectius or Vettius Titinius. [W.R]
1. M. Titinius, one of the tribunes of the plebs, elected immediately after the abolition of the decemvirate, B. C. 449. (Liv. 3.54.)
2. SEX. TITINIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 439. (Liv. 4.16.)
3. L. Titinius Pansa Saccus, consular tribune, B. C. 400 and 396. (Liv. 5.12, 18; Fasti Capit.)
4. M. Titinius C. F. C. N., magister equitum to the dictator C. Junius Bubulcus, B. C. 302. (Liv. 10.1; Fasti Capit.)
5. P. Titinius, legatus of the praetor in the war against the Gauls B. C. 200. (Liv. 31.21.)
6 and 7. M. and C. Titinii, tribunes of the plebs, B. C. 193. (Liv. 35.8,)
6. M. Titinius Curvus, praetor urbanus R. C. 178. He levied troops at Rome in this year, and gave an audience of the senate to Ti. Sempronius Gracchus and L. Postumius Albinus on their return from Spain. (Liv. 40.59, 41.5, 6.)
7. M. Titinius, praetor B. C. 178, received the province of Nearer Spain with the title of proconsul, and continued to govern it for four years, till B. C. 174. In B. C. 171 he was accused of malversation in the province, but was acquitted. (Liv. 41.15, 26, 43.2.)
8. C. Titinius Gadaeus, one of the leaders of the slaves in Sicily, betrayed an important fort to the praetor Licinius Nerva in B. C. 103. (Diod. xxxvi. Eel. l. p. 532, Wess.)
9. M. Titinius, a legatus of Nerva in the Servile war in Sicily, was defeated by the slaves. (Diod. l.c.)
10. C. Titinius, the husband of Fannia, who concealed Marius in B. C. 88. (V. Max. 8.2.3; Plut. Mar, 38, who erroneously calls him Tinnius.) For particulars of the dispute between Titinius and Fannia, see FANNIA.
11. Cn. Titinius, a distinguished Roman eques, resisted the tribune M. Livius Drusus, B. C. 91. (Cic. pro Cluent. 56.)
12. Titinii, are mentioned among the people of property proscribed by Sulla and murdered by Catiline in B. C. 81. (Q. Cic. de Pet. Cons. 100.2.)
13. Q. Titinius, one of the judices at the trial of Verres, was a brother (by the same mother) of C. Fannius, a Roman eques (Cic. Ver. 1.49). This Titinius carried on the business of a money-lender, and as such Cicero had dealings with him. On the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, he espoused the cause of Pompey, but his son, who had been adopted by one Pontius, and who is therefore called Pontius Titinianus, sided with Caesar. (Cic. Att. 2.4, 5.21.5, 7.18.4, 9.6.6, 9.9, 18, 19.)
14. Titinius, a centurion in the army of Cassius at the battle of Philippi, B. C. 42, was sent by his commander, after his defeat by Antony, to see how Brutus had fared; but as Titinius did not return so soon as was expected, Cassius, supposing all was lost, put an end to his own life. Titinius, on his arrival, killed himself over the body of Cassius, to atone for his involuntary error. (V. Max. 9.9.2.) The story is told a little differently by Appian (App. BC 4.113) and Plutarch. (Brut. 43.)
15. Titinius, a legate of Octavianus in his war with Sex. Pompeius. (Appian, App. BC 5.111.)
16. C. Titinius, whose name occurs on coins, cannot be referred with certainty to any of the preceding persons. On the obverse is the head of Pallas, and on the reverse Victory in a biga with C. TITINI, and underneath Roma. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 325.)
A Roman comic poet, the earliest representative of the fabula togata. (See comoedia.) He flourished about B.C. 150. Owing to his skill in portraying character he was ranked next to Terence. Of his comedies we only possess fifteen titles and three fragments of a popular character, given in Ribbeck's collection (1872).