Titus

Family: Roman · Role: son of Brutus · First appears: Poplicola

Life events

Titus defeated Philip, freeing the Greeks and their cities.(Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus · 📍 Greece)
- With: Philip
- “Titus, by a defeat given to Philip in the heart of Greece, set them and their cities free.”
Titus preserved Philip’s royal dignity after defeating him.(Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus)
- With: Philip
- “Titus reserved to Philip the royal dignity;”
Philopoemen rescued the Lacedaemonians and barred Diophanes and Titus from Sparta.(Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Philopoemen Diophanes
- “he was also a private citizen when he rescued the Lacedaemonians, and shut the gates of Sparta against the General Diophanes, and Titus.”

parent: Lucius Brutus (Direction is parent to child.) “But Brutus, calling his two sons by their names, ”
siblings with Tiberius “But Brutus, calling his two sons by their names, ”

with Philopoemen (They are compared as parallel figures, with different kinds of merit.) “To conclude, since it does not appear to be easy, by any review or discussion, to establish the true difference of their merits, and decide to which a preference is due, will it be an unfair award in the case, if we let the Greek bear away the crown for military conduct and warlike skill, and the Roman for justice and clemency?”
enemies with Philip “Titus decided the matter betwixt Philip and himself in two engagements;”
enemies with Philopoemen “he rescued the Lacedaemonians, and shut the gates of Sparta against the General Diophanes, and Titus.”
with Archedemus (Archedemus mocked Titus's conduct in battle.) “so much so that one Archedemus, an Aetolian, made it a jest against him that while he, the Aetolian, was running with his drawn sword, where he saw the Macedonians drawn up closest and fighting hardest, Titus was standing still, and with hands stretched out to heaven, praying to the gods for aid.”

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