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Titus   /tˈaɪtəs/   Listen
Titus

noun
1.
A Greek disciple and helper of Saint Paul.
2.
Emperor of Rome; son of Vespasian (39-81).  Synonyms: Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Titus Vespasianus Augustus.
3.
A New Testament book containing Saint Paul's epistle to Titus; contains advice on pastoral matters.  Synonyms: Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus, Epistle to Titus.



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"Titus" Quotes from Famous Books



... passport in due form?" quoth she, displaying a sheet of paper, wherein she was described as M. le Vicomte Felix de Vandeness, Master of Requests, and His Majesty's private secretary. "And do I not play my man's part well?" she added, running her fingers through her wig a la Titus, and twirling her ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac

... observances. On the other hand, there was no reason why those who were converted from heathendom to Christianity should observe them. Hence Paul circumcised Timothy, who was born of a Jewish mother; but was unwilling to circumcise Titus, ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... hard one. Since the days of Roman conquest the earth has not seen such energy, persistency and ingenuity in arts of subjugation. Since Titus encompassed Jerusalem and the Aurelian shook the east with his fierce legions, a more stubborn, desperate and lavish resistance has not been witnessed against attack so resolute, systematic and overwhelming. The ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

... with bewitching two children; and part of the evidence against them was that flies and bees were seen to carry into the victims' mouths the nails and pins which they afterwards vomited.[3] There is an allusion to this belief in the fly-killing scene in "Titus Andronicus."[4] ...
— Elizabethan Demonology • Thomas Alfred Spalding

... obscene pictures and a small Asiatic mitre. Like many of his kind at that day, he sold poisons and invented five or six new remedies which were more or less haphazard mixtures of wine and poisonous substances. He had the good luck to cure his first patient, Titus Cnoeus Leno, who, being a poet, straightway constituted himself the vates sacer of his physician, and induced some of his fashionable mistresses to place themselves under his hands. So profitable was Horatillavus's practice that he is said to have saved 150,000 ...
— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott


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