Titus (lived AD 39–⁠81; emperor 79–81)

He was raised at Claudius’s court together with Britannicus. During his father’s reign he was his colleague in power and praetorian prefect; Suetonius writes that he ran the Guard harshly and had Caecina killed. His liaison with the Jewish queen Berenice aroused resentment in Rome.

As emperor he sentenced no senator to death and punished informers. In his 26 months on the throne he lived through the eruption of Vesuvius (79), the fire of Rome and a plague (80). He opened the Flavian Amphitheatre with games lasting a hundred days.

He died of a fever at the family estate in the land of the Sabines, saying that he regretted only one thing. What it was — no one knows. The year of his birth is disputed: Dio gives 39, Suetonius in one place 41.