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letter of the New Testament. With First and Second Timothy, it comprises the Pastoral Epistles, purportedly written by St. Paul. Titus resembles First Timothy in detail; it consists of points regarding the regulation of church government, while stressing the need for the continuation of Pauline teaching.

Bibliography

See J. D. Quinn, The Letter to Titus (1990).

Titus is a common Roman praenomen of unknown etymology meaning "honorable, " which could refer to any of the following:

Historical or living persons

• Titus (Biblical), fellowworker with Paul of Tarsus and pastor of the first Christian church in Crete at Gortyn
  • The Epistle to Titus
• Titus, the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus
  • His father, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the Roman Emperor Vespasian
• The historian Titus Livius, usually called 'Livy' in English
• Titus Pomponius Atticus (110 BC/109 BC – 32 BC), an ancient Roman littérateur/philosopher and friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Titus Labienus, Roman general
• Another name for Saint Dismas, the "good thief"
• Titus (patriarch), Patriarch of Constantinople
• Titus son of the painter Rembrandt
• Christopher Titus, the star and namesake of the sitcom
• Herb Titus U.S. Taxpayers Party|American Taxpayers Party Vice presidential candidate in the 1996 election
• Josip Broz Tito, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia leader (variation on "Tito")
• Titus, former ring name of professional wrestler Ryan Wilson

In the natural world

• Titus, the ancient name of the Krka river in Croatia.
• Titus (spider) is also a species of spiders (Gnaphosidae)

In fiction

• Titus Andronicus, the play by William Shakespeare
• Titus Groan, the protagonist in the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake
• Titus Pullo, a character in HBO's Rome series.
• Titus (film) (1999), the movie based upon Shakespeare's play
  • The soundtrack to the movie, by Elliot Goldenthal, Titus (soundtrack)
• Titus (TV series), American situation comedy

In science and technology

• Titus (company), a German skateboard and skate wear company
• TITUS Cyberbit Basic, a typeface developed by the TITUS Project and Bitstream Inc
• Titus Cycles, a bicycle frame manufacturer based in Tempe, Arizona, USA
• TITUS (project), a project for creation of an Indo-European languages thesaurus
• Titus (rocket), A French rocket
• Titus Software, a video game developer and video game publisher
• Titus the Fox, a video game by Titus Software

Other

• Titus (band), a Newcastle based Christian punk rock band
• Titus books (publisher), a New Zealand based independent publisher.

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