Tatius

[ tey-shuhs ]

noun

, Roman Legend.

1. a Sabine king who, following the rape of the Sabine women, attacked Rome and eventually ruled with Romulus.

Example Sentences

Achilles Tatius, a second-century ce native of Alexandria, included an ecstatic description in his novel, Leucippe and Clitophon, which should sound familiar to many a modern tourist trying to encompass the abundant wonders of Rome or Paris.

From Literature

After the death of Tatius, the Capitoline again fell under the government of Romulus, and his successor, Numa Pompilius, founded here a Temple of Fides Publica, in which the flamens were always to sacrifice with a fillet on their right hands, in sign of fidelity.

From Project Gutenberg

It first received its name of Cœlius from Cœlius Vibenna, an Etruscan Lucumo of Ardea, who is said to have come to the assistance of Romulus in his war against the Sabine king Tatius, and to have afterwards established himself here.

From Project Gutenberg

At the foot of this road was the temple of Luna, or Jana, in which Tatius had also erected an altar to Janus or the Sun.

From Project Gutenberg

The Sabine king Tatius, the rival of Romulus, was buried on the Aventine "in a great grove of laurels," and, at his tomb, then called Armilustrum, it was the custom, every year, in the month of October, to hold a feast for the purification of arms, accompanied by martial dances.

From Project Gutenberg