Tatius

TATIVS, king or general of the Sabines who inhabited the city of Cures, with whom the Romans waged the first war. This brave chieftain proved a formidable enemy to the thrn infant colony of Rome, within whose walls he and his soldiers succeeded in penetrating. and they would perhaps have destroyed it, if the Sabine women, whom the Romans some time before carried off, had not made themselves the medium of consummating peace between their husbands and their own parents. The two people became united as one, at the expense of the power of Romulus. for he shared the functions of royalty with Tatius, and admitted into the senate one hundred of the principal Sabines. Tatius was soon after assassinated, and had no successor. On a denarius of the Tituria family there is a naked and bearded head, which accompanied by TA. in monogram, and the legend SABINus [the Titurii, thus referring to the Sabine origin,] is generally considered by numismatists to be meant for that of Tatius, the Sabine.

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