=Titho´nus=, a son of Laomedon, king of Troy. He was so handsome that Auro´ra became enamored of him, and persuaded Jupiter to make him immortal; but as she forgot to ask for eternal youth also, he became decrepit and ugly, and Aurora changed him into a cicada, or grasshopper. His name is a synonym for a very old man. Weary of aged Tithon’s saffron-bed. Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, I. ii. 7 (1500). ... thinner than Tithōnus was Before he faded into air. Lord Lytton, _Tales of Milētus_, ii. _Tithonus_ (_The Consort of_), the dawn. Now the fair consort of Tithonus old, Arisen from her mate’s beloved arms, Looked palely o’er the eastern cliff. Dantê, _Purgatory_, ix. (1308). =Tithor´ea=, one of the two chief summits of Parnassus. It was dedicated to Bacchus, the other (_Lycorēa_), being dedicated to the Muses and Apollo. =Titian= (_Tiziano Vecellio_), an Italian landscape painter, especially famous for his flesh-tints and female figures (1477-1576). _Titian_ (_The French_), Jacques Blanchard (1600-1638). _Titian_ (_The Portuguese_), Alonzo Sanchez Coello (1515-1590). =Titmarsh= (_Michael Angelo_), a pseudonym used by Thackeray, in a number of his earlier writings. Like Michael Angelo, Thackeray had a broken nose. =Titmouse= (_Mr. Tittlebat_), a vulgar, ignorant coxcomb, suddenly raised from the degree of a linen-draper’s shopman, to a man of fortune, with an income of £10,000 a year.--Warren, _Ten Thousand a Year_. =Tito Mele´ma=, a Greek, who marries Romola.--George Eliot, _Romola_. =Titurel=, the first king of Graal-burg. He has brought into subjection all his passions, has resisted all the seductions of the world, and is modest, chaste, pious, and devout. His daughter, Sigunê, is in love with Tschionatulander, who is slain.--Wolfram von Eschenbach, _Titurel_ (thirteenth century). ⁂ Wolfram’s _Titurel_ is a tedious expansion of a lay already in existence, and Albert of Scharfenberg produced a _Young Titurel_, at one time thought the best romance of chivalry in existence, but it is pompous, stilted, erudite, and wearisome. =Titus=, the son of Lucius Junius Brutus. He joined the faction of Tarquin, and was condemned to death by his father, who, having been the chief instrument in banishing the king and all his race, was created the first consul. The subject has been often dramatized. In English, by N. Lee (1678) and John Howard Payne (1820). In French, by Arnault, in 1792; and by Ponsard, in 1843. In Italian, by Alfieri, _Bruto_, etc. It was in Payne’s tragedy that Charles Kean made his _début_ in Glasgow, as “Titus,” his father playing “Brutus.” _Titus_, “the delight of man,” the Roman emperor, son of Vespasian (40, 79-81).