TITUS TATIUS  , in Roman legend, the Sabine king of Cures, who waged war upon the Romans to avenge the rape of the Sabine women (see RoMU1.us) . After various indecisive conflicts the latter, who had become Roman matrons, intervened and prevailed upon the combatants to cease fighting . A formal treaty was then arranged between the Romans and Sabines, whereby Romulus and Tatius were to be joint and equal rulers of the Roman people . Rome was to retain its name and each citizen was to be called a Roman, but as a community they were to be called Quirites (q.v.); the Sabines were to be incorporated in the state and admitted into the tribes and curies . After this arrangement had lasted for five years it came to an end by the death of Tatius, who was killed out of revenge by the inhabitants of Lavinium . According to Mommsen, the story of his death, (for which see Plutarch) looka like an historical version of the abolition of blood-revenge . Tatius, who in some respects resembles Remus, is not an historical personage, but the eponymous hero of the religious college called Sodales Titii . As to this body Tacitus expresses two different opinions, representing two different traditions: that it was introduced either by Tatius himself to preserve the Sabine cult in Rome; or by Romulus in honour of Tatius, at whose grave its members were bound to offer a yearly sacrifice . The sodales fell into abeyance at the end of the republic, but were revived by Augustus and existed to the end of the 2nd century A.D . Augustus himself and the emperor Claudius belonged to the college, and all its members were of senatorial rank . Varro derives the name from the Titiae ayes which were used by the priests in certain auguries . See Livy i .

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Annals, i . 54, H;st. ii . 95; Dion . Halic. ii . 36—52; Plutarch, Romulus, 19—24; Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung (1885) iii . 446; Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bk. ix . 3, 14; x . 5 .