Clyde and the Forth. After presiding at some games, at the close of which he is said to have wept bitterl3% though the cause of his sorrow is not stated, Titus went off to the country of the Sabines in very low spirits, owing to some bad Dmens. He was seized with fever at the first resting-place, and being carried from thence to a villa, in which his father had died, he ended his life there on the 13th of September, after a reign of two years and two months, and twenty days. He was in the forty-first year of his age. There were suspicions that he was poisoned by Domitian. Plutarch says that his health was damaged by the frequent use of the bath. There is a story that Domitian came before Titus was dead, and ordered him to be deserted by those about him : according to another story, he ordered him to be thrown into a vessel full of snow, under the pretext of cooling his fever. It is reported that shortly before his death, Titus lamented that he was dying so soon, and said that he had never done but one thing of which he repented. Nobody knew what this one thing was ; but there were various conjectures. Perhaps the difficulty may be best solved by sup- posing that he never uttered the words, or if he did, that he was in the delirium of his fever. Titus was succeeded by his brother Domitian. His daughter Julia Sabina was married to Flavius Sa- binus, his cousin, the son of Flavius Sabinus, the brother of Vespasian. Titus is said to have written Greek poems and tragedies : he was very familiar with Greek. He also wrote many letters in his father's name during Vespasian's life, and drew up edicta. (Suetonius, Titus Flavius Vespasianus ; Tacitus, Hist. ; Dion Cassias, Ixvi. ; Tillemont, Histoire des Einpereurs, vol. ii.) [G. L.] TLENPOLEMUS.
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COIN OP TITUS.
TITUS, one of the two supernumerary tyrants
added by Trebellius Pollio to his list of the thirty
[see AiiREOLUs]. He is said to have maintained
his pretensions to the throne for a few days during
the reign of Maximinus, and to have been put to
death by the very soldiers who had forced the
purple on his acceptance. There can be little
doubt that he is the same person who is called
Tycus by Capitolinus {Maximin. duo, c. 11), and
Quartinus bv Herodian. [Quartinus.] [W. R.]
TITYUS {TiTvosX a son of Gaea, or of Zeus
and Elara, the daughter of Orchomenus, was a
giant in Euboea, and the father of Europa, (Hom.
Od. vii. 324 ; Apollod. i. 4. $ 1 ; Schol. ad Apol-
lon. Rhod. i. 181, 761 ; Pind. Pyth. iv. 81.) In-
stigated by Hera (Hygin. Fab. 55), he made an
assault upon Leto or Artemis, when she passed
through Panopaeus to Pytho, but was killed by the
arrows of Artemis or Apollo, or, according to others,
Zeus killed him with a flash of lightning. (Hygin.
l.c. ; Schol. ad Apollon. i. 181 ; Pans. iii. 18. § 9 ;
Pind. Pyth. iv. 160 ; Horat. Carm. iv. 6. $2.)
He was then cast into Tartarus, and there he
lay outstretched on the ground, covering nine
acres, and two vultures or snakes devoured his
liver. (Hygin. l.c. ; Schol. ad Pind. 01. i. 97 ;
Hom. Od. xi. 576, &c.) Hi» gigantic tomb was
shown in aftertimes near Panopeus (Pans. x. 4. §
4), and his fall by the arrows of Artemis and
Apollo was represented on the throne of Apollo at
Amyclae. (Pans. iii. 18. § 9, x. 11. § 1, 29. § 2 ;
comp. Strab. ix. p. 422 ; Virg. Aen. vi. 595 ; Ov,
Met. iv. 457, Epist. ex Pont. i. 2. 41.) [L. S.]
TLEPO'LEMUS (TAtjttJa e^uos.) 1. A son of
Heracles by Astyoche, the daughter of Phylas
(Hom. //. ii. 658 ; Apollod. ii. 7. §§ 6, 8 ; Philostr.
Her. ii. 14), or by Astydameia, the daughter of
Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly. (Pind.
01. vii. 41.) Tlepolemus was king of Argos, but
after slaying his uncle Licymnius, he was obliged
to take to flight, and in conformity with the com-
mand of an oracle, settled in Rliodes, where he
built the towns of Lindos, lalysos and Cameiros,
and from whence he joined the Greeks in the
Trojan war with nine ships. (Hom. //. ii. 653,
&c.; Apollod. ii. 8. § 2.) At Troy he was slain
by Sarpedon. (//. v. 627, &c.; Diod. iv. 58, v. 59.)
His wife Philozoe instituted funeral games in
commemoration of his death. (Tzetz. ad Lye,
911.)
. A Trojan, a son of Damastor, who was slain
by Patroclus. (Hom. //. xvi. 416.) [L.S.]
TLEPO'LEMUS (TA777ro'A€/ios), historical. 1.
An Athenian general, who brought a reinforcement
to Pericles in the Samian war, B. c. 440. (Thuc.
i. 117.)
. The son of Pythophanes, one of the kraipoi,
or body-guard of Alexander the Great, was joined
in the government of the Parthyaei and Hyrcanii
with Amminapes, a Parthyaean, whom Alexander
had appointed satrap of those provinces. At a
later period Tlepolemus was appointed by Alex-
ander satrap of Cararaania, which he retained on
the deach of Alexander in B. c. 323, and also at
the fresh division of the provinces at Triparadisua
in B. c. 321. (Arrian, Anab. iii. 22, vi. 27; Diod.
xviii. 3, 39.)
TLEPO'LEMUS, CORNELIUS, and HIERO,
who are called by Cicero the canes venatici of
Verres, were brothers, natives of Cibyra, whence
they fled, under the suspicion of having pillaged
the temple of Apollo, and betook themselves to
Verres, who was then in Asia. From that time
they became his dependants, and during his go-
vernment of Sicily they performed for him the
service of hunting out the works of art which ap-
peared to be worth appropriating. They were both
artists, Tlepolemus being a painter, and Hiero a
modeller in wax. Some particulars of their mode
of proceeding are given by Cicero (in Verr. iii. 28,
iv. 13).
Respecting another artist of this name, see
Tlenpolemos. [P. S.]
TLENPOLEMOS (TVENFOVEMO^;), is the
form in which the name of a maker of painted
vases is inscribed twice on one of the Canino vases
(Mus. Etrtisque, No. 149), and again, in connection
with the name of the painter Taconides, on a vase
discovered by the MM. Candelori (Gerhard, Rap-
port. Volcent. p. 180), and thirdly on a recently
discovered vase, now in the Museum at Berlin.
(Neuerworbene Vasenbilder, No. 1597.) It has
been disputed whether the true reading of the
name is Tlepolemus or Tlesipolemus ; but the con-