Tatius

Family: Sabines · Role: Sabine captain and co-ruler of Rome · First appears: Romulus

Life events

• The Romans and Sabines ended hostilities, shared the city, and accepted joint rule.(Romulus · 📍 Comitium)
  • With: Hersilia Romulus
  • “Hersilia having spoken many such words as these, and the others earnestly praying, a truce was made, and the chief officers came to a parley; the women, in the mean time, brought and presented their husbands and children to their fathers and brothers; gave those that wanted, meat and drink, and carried the wounded home to be cured, and showed also how much they governed within doors, and how indulgent their husbands were to them, in demeaning themselves towards them with all kindness and respect imaginable. Upon this, conditions were agreed upon, that what women pleased might stay where they were, exempt, as aforesaid, from all drudgery and labor but spinning; that the Romans and Sabines should inhabit the city together; that the city should be called Rome, from Romulus; but the Romans, Quirites, from the country of Tatius; and that they both should govern and command in common.”
• Tatius was killed by relatives of murdered ambassadors, and Romulus buried him without retaliation.(Romulus · 📍 Lavinium)
  • With: Romulus
  • “The relations of the slain, being debarred of lawful satisfaction by reason of Tatius, fell upon him as he was sacrificing with Romulus at Lavinium, and slew him; but escorted Romulus home, commending and extolling him for a just prince. Romulus took the body of Tatius, and buried it very splendidly in the Aventine Mount, near the place called Armilustrium, but altogether neglected revenging his murder.”

Romulus

• with Romulus (interaction) “that they both should govern and command in common.”
• with Tarpeia (interaction) “and so then did Tatius behave towards Tarpeia, for he commanded the Sabines, in regard to their contract, not to refuse her the least part of what they wore on their left arms;”
• rivals with Romulus “this one thing was the beginning of open quarrel between them; in all other respects they were very careful of their conduct, and administered affairs together with great unanimity.”

Numa Pompilius

• child: Tatia “Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, chose him for his son-in-law, and gave him his only daughter”
• with Numa Pompilius (Tatius was Numa's father-in-law.) “Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, chose him for his son-in-law, and gave him his only daughter”
• with Romulus (interaction) “Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, chose him for his son-in-law”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.