_Titus_, the penitent thief, according to the legend. Dumăchus and Titus were two of a band of robbers, who attacked Joseph in his flight into Egypt. Titus said, “Let these good people go in peace;” but Dumachus replied, “First let them pay their ransom.” Whereupon Titus handed to his companion forty groats; and the infant Jesus said to him: When thirty years shall have gone by I at Jerusalem shall die ... On the accursêd tree. Then on My right and My left side, These thieves shall both be crucified, And Titus thenceforth shall abide In paradise with Me. Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851). =Tityre Tus= (long _u_), the name assumed in the seventeenth century by a clique of young blades of the better class, whose delight was to break windows, upset sedan-chairs, molest quiet citizens, and rudely caress pretty women in the streets at night-time. These brawlers took successively many titular names, as Muns, Hectors, Scourers, afterwards Nickers, later still Hawcubites, and lastly Mohawks or Mohocks. “Tityre tu-s” is meant for the plural of “Tityre tu,” in the first line of Virgil’s first _Eclogue_: “Tityre, tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi,” and meant to imply that these blades were men of leisure and fortune, who “lay at ease under their patrimonial beech trees.” =Tit´yrus=, in the _Shepheardes Calendar_, by Spenser (ecl. ii. and vi.), is meant for Chaucer. The gentle shepherd sate beside a spring ... That Colin hight, which well could pipe and sing, For he of Tityrus his song did learn. Spenser, _The Shepheardes Calendar_, xii. (1579). =Tityus=, a giant, whose body covered nine acres of ground. In Tartărus, two vultures or serpents feed forever on his liver, which grows as fast as it is gnawed away. Promētheus (3 _syl._) is said to have been fastened to Mount Caucasus, where two eagles fed on his liver, which never wasted. Nor unobserved lay stretched upon the marle Tityus, earth-born, whose body, long and large, Covered nine acres. There two vultures sat, Of appetite insatiate, and with beaks For ravine bent, unintermitting gored His liver. Powerless he to put to flight The fierce devourers. To this penance judged For rape intended on Latona fair. Fenton’s _Homer’s Odyssey_, xi. (1716). =Tizo´na=, the Cid’s sword. It was buried with him, as Joyeuse (Charlemagne’s sword) was buried with Charlemagne, and Durindāna with Orlando.