Titus, Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus AD39-81
Roman emperor

The eldest son of Vespasian, on his father's accession to the throne (AD69) he ended the Jewish war and captured Jerusalem (70). He had a liaison with Berenice, sister of Herod Agrippa II, and she accompanied him to Rome. There, however, the liaison between the son of the emperor and a Jewess was disapproved of, and he dismissed her. When he assumed power in 79, he put a stop to treason trials, and heavily punished informers. Handsome, cultivated and universally popular in Rome, he completed the Colosseum, built baths, and lavished his generosity upon the sufferers from the eruption of Vesuvius (79), the three days' fire at Rome, and the pestilence. He died suddenly, but the suspicion that he had been poisoned by his brother and successor, Domitian, was probably unfounded.

Bibliography: B W Henderson, Five Roman Emperors (1927)