TITUS, who had the same cognomen with his father, was the darling and the delight
					of mankind; so much did the natural genius, address, or good fortune he
					possessed tend to conciliate the favour of all. This was, indeed, extremely
					difficult, after he became emperor, as before that time, and even during the
					reign of his father, he lay under public odium and censure. He was born upon the
					third of the calends of January [30th Dec.], in the year remarkable for the
					death of Caius, Caligula. Titus was born A. U. C. 794;
						about A. D. 49 . near the Septizonium, The Septizonium was a circular building of seven stories.
						The remains of that of Septimis Severus, which stood on the side of the
						Palatine Hill, remained till the time of Pope Sixtus V., who removed it, and
						employed thirty-eight of its columns in ornamenting the church of St. Peter.
						It does not appear whether the Septizonium here mentioned as existing in the
						time of Titus, stood on the same spot. in a mean house, and a very
					small and dark room, which still exists, and is shown to the curious. He was educated in the palace with Britannicus, and instructed in the same
					branches of learning, and under the same masters. During this time, they say,
					that a physiognomist being introduced by Narcissus, the freedman of Claudius, to
					examine the features of Britannicus, Britannicus, the son
						of Claudius and Messalina. positively affirmed that he would never
					become emperor, but that Titus, who stood by, would. They were so familiar, that
					Titus being next him at table, is thought to have tasted of the fatal potion
					which put an end to Britannicus's life, and to have contracted from it a
					distemper which hung about him a long time. In remembrance of all these
					circumstances, he afterwards erected a golden statue of him in the Palatium, and
					dedicated to him an equestrian statue of ivory; attending it in the Circensian
					procession, in which it is still carried to this day.