Titus
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman emperor whose siege of Jerusalem is cited as an example of national calamity.
and by peace is meant such a peace as would prevent the whole people from being exterminated, a calamity like that which befel the Jews, when their city was besieged by Titus.
” The Jewish women and children too were exposed by Titus, to be torn to pieces by wild beasts at a public spectacle.
Adversus Marcionem
A Greek companion of Paul whose non-circumcision at Jerusalem is used as evidence in the argument about the law's abrogation.
But when he says that not even Titus was circumcised, he begins to show that the question of circumcision alone was being shaken from the defence still made of the law by those whom for that reason he calls false and surreptitiously introduced brethren, men proceeding to establish nothing else than the continuance of the law, out of a faith in the Creator no doubt still intact, and so perverting t …
Yet I wonder that, when he received letters written to one man, he rejected the two to Timothy and the one to Titus, composed about ecclesiastical order.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Roman emperor named as a byword for a celebrated ruler, whom the reforming sovereign's fame is predicted to outshine.
and if these truths should happily force their way to the thrones of princes, be it known to them, that they come attended with the secret wishes of all mankind, and tell the sovereign who deigns them a gracious reception, that his fame shall outshine the glory of conquerors, and that equitable posterity will exalt his peaceful trophies above those of a Titus, an Antoninus, or a Trajan.