Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Titulus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TIT'ULUS. A placard or board attached to a long pole, and carried by the soldiery in triumphal processions, to record the number of prisoners, amount of booty, and names of the towns or countries captured; all which details were inscribed upon it in large characters, for the information of the populace. (Ov. Trist. iv. 2. 20.) The illustration (Titulus/1.1) represents one of the boards carried at the triumph of the Emperor Titus, after the conquest of Jerusalem, from the arch erected in commemoration of that event.

2. The title or lettering-piece of a book (Plin. Ep. v. 13. 3. Senec. Tranq. 9.) Same as INDEX, under which term the object is explained and illustrated.

3. A notice or bill put up against a house to announce that it was to be let or sold (Plin. Ep. vii. 27. 7.); hence the expression mittere lares sub titulo (Ov. Rem. 302. Compare Tibull. ii. 4. 54.) means to advertise a house for sale. The notice of sale declared the price and particulars (Plin. l. c.); the form for letting was comprised in the words EST LOCANDA, which is commonly retained at the present day in modern Rome.

4. An epitaph (Plin. Ep. vi. 10. 3.); and any kind of inscription upon monuments, buildings, vessels, &.

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