Titus (Titus Flavies Sabinus Vespasla-xus), a Roman emperor, born Dec. 30, A. D. 40, died near Reate in the Sabine country, Sept. 13, 81. He was the son of Vespasian, and was educated in the imperial household with Bri-tannicus, the son of Claudius, who was poisoned by Nero. While still young he served as military tribune in Britain and Germany, and subsequently became qua?stor. During the Jewish war he commanded a legion under his father, and captured Tarichaaa, Gamala, and other places. when Vespasian, proclaimed emperor by his army, went to Rome, he left Titus to end the Jewish war, which he accomplished in September, 70, by the capture of Jerusalem and the massacre and dispersion of its inhabitants. Subsequently he returned to Rome by the order of his father, carrying with him Berenice, the daughter of Herod Agrippa, with whom he had fallen in love (see Beee-nice), and by his prompt obedience proved that the rumors which charged him with aiming at the throne were unfounded. For their common success in the Jewish war he had with his father the honor of a triumph, and the arch of Titus then erected is still standing. (See Rome, vol. xiv., p. 412.) During the remaining years of the reign of Vespasian he was employed in discharging the highest functions of state.

He drew up the imperial edicts, and was permitted to write letters in the emperor's name. He ascended the throne in 79, and soon dispelled the impression, produced by some features of his earlier conduct, that he would be another Nero. The people called him amor et delictoe generis humani, and Suetonius records that he exclaimed, Amici, diem perdidi, whenever a day passed without his being able to do a service to a friend or petitioner. His reign was marked by a succession of terrible calamities, the injuries inflicted by which ho i made earnest efforts to repair. In 79 the towns of Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Pompeii were destroyed; in 80 a great fire broke out in Rome whicb lasted three days, and a plague began to ravage the city, of which thousands died daily. Titus almost exhausted his finances in order to relieve his unfortunate subjects, repaired many aqueducts, made a road from Rome to Ariminum (the modern Rimini), completed the Colosseum, which his father had begun, and also constructed the baths called the baths of Titus. In dedicating these two last, he gave magnificent entertainments, which continued 100 days, on one of which 5,000 wild beasts are said to have been set fighting in the new amphitheatre.

He checked all prosecutions of Ioesa majestas, and punished all informers, He pardoned his brother Domitian, who several times had attempted to supplant him. Meanwhile his health declined, and going to the Sabine country, he expired in the same villa in which his father had died. Titus is said to have written Greek poems and tragedies.

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Titus, a companion and fellow laborer of the apostle Paul. He was a Greek, and was one of those persons sent from Antioch to Jerusalem to consult the apostles, and it was not judged necessary that he should be circumcised. He accompanied Paul to Jerusalem, was his agent at Corinth and in Dalmatia, and was left with ecclesiastical commissions on the island of Crete. According to ecclesiastical authorities and tradition, he was the first bishop of Crete.