Titus Lartius

Also known as: Lartius / Titus · Family: Rome · Role: Roman commander · First appears: Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• Titus Lartius pledges to fight alongside Caius Martius rather than remain behind.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Coriolanus
  • “MARTIUS. Titus Lartius, thou Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus’ face. What, art thou stiff? Stand’st out? TITUS LARTIUS. No, Caius Martius, I’ll lean upon one crutch and fight with th’ other Ere stay behind this business.”
• The Roman and Volscian armies engage in battle outside Corioles.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 Corioles)
  • With: Coriolanus Tullus Aufidius
  • “MARTIUS. O, they are at it! LARTIUS. Their noise be our instruction.—Ladders, ho!”
• The Volsces drive the Romans back to their trenches.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 Corioles)
  • With: Coriolanus
  • “[Alarums. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. They exit, with the Volsces following.]”
• Titus Lartius fights to rescue Martius and enters the city with the others.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 Corioles)
  • With: Coriolanus
  • “LARTIUS. O, ’tis Martius! Let’s fetch him off or make remain alike. [They fight, and all enter the city.]”
• Titus Lartius establishes a guard and prepares Corioles for defense.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 Corioles)
  • “So, let the ports be guarded. Keep your duties As I have set them down.”
• Cominius grants freedom to Caius Martius’s impoverished host, ordering Titus Lartius to deliver him.(Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 Corioles)
  • With: Cominius Coriolanus
  • “I request you To give my poor host freedom. COMINIUS. O, well begged! Were he the butcher of my son, he should Be free as is the wind.—Deliver him, Titus.”

Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I

• friends with Coriolanus “MARTIUS. Sir, it is, And I am constant.—Titus Lartius, thou Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus’ face. What, art thou stiff? Stand’st out? TITUS LARTIUS. No, Caius Martius, I’ll lean upon one crutch and fight with th’ other Ere stay behind this business.”
• patron: Cominius “Lead you on. / Follow Cominius. We must follow you; / Right worthy your priority.”

Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV

• friends with Coriolanus “Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight With hearts more proof than shields.—Advance, brave Titus. They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts, Which makes me sweat with wrath.—Come on, my fellows!”

Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII

• patron: Cominius “So, to our tent, Where, ere we do repose us, we will write To Rome of our success.—You, Titus Lartius, Must to Corioles back. Send us to Rome The best, with whom we may articulate For their own good and ours.”

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