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unusual facts about Titus Tatius


Faunus

Festus 106 L records a king Lucerus who helped Romulus against Titus Tatius.


Tarpeia

The legend tells that while Rome was besieged by the Sabine king Titus Tatius, Tarpeia, daughter of the commander of the citadel, Spurius Tarpeius, approached the Sabine camp and offered them entry to the city in exchange for "what they bore on their left arms".

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

The painting depicts Romulus's wife Hersilia – the daughter of Titus Tatius, leader of the Sabines – rushing between her husband and her father and placing her babies between them.


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