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Titinius

 

Titinius, writer of comedies at Rome in the second century BC, a contemporary of Terence, and the earliest known author of fabulae togatae, comedies with Roman plots and characters. Only fifteen titles and some fragments survive.

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Titinius was a nomen of ancient Rome.

  • Marcus Titinius, tribune 450 BC
  • Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, consular tribune 400 BC, 396 BC
  • Marcus Titinius, magister equitum 302 BC
  • Gaius Titinius Gadaeus, bandit in slave revolt used by Gaius Marius
  • Marcus Titinius, commander in the time of Marius
  • Titinius, poet, earliest known composer of tabernariae, survived Terence, only fragments extant
  • Gnaeus Octavius Titinius Capito, official and writer 2nd century

Titinius also appears as a character in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.


 
 

 

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