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Tatius

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[tay-shuhs] / ˈteɪ ʃəs /

noun

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


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"They are Roman citizens," said Tatius, "and we must not give them up to a foreign state."

From Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Romulus himself won his own wife, Hersilia, among the Sabines on this occasion; but the nation of course took up arms, under their king Tatius, to recover their daughters.

From Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Let Sextius and Licinius, like Romulus and Tatius, reign in the city of Rome, because they give away as donations other persons' money and lands.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

According to Achilles Tatius, Xenophanes gave to the earth the shape of an immense inclined plane, which stretched out to infinity.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake

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 Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

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