Titus Tatius gave his daughter Tatia in marriage to Numa Pompilius, binding the future king of Rome to the Sabine royal house.
After the Sabine women brokered peace, Romulus and Titus Tatius ruled Rome jointly as co-kings. Their partnership merged the Roman and Sabine peoples into a single community until Tatius's death.
Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, waged war against Romulus after the Romans seized Sabine women. The conflict ended when the Sabine women intervened on the battlefield, leading to a joint kingship.
Tarpeia opened the gates of Rome's citadel to Titus Tatius and the Sabines, having bargained for what they wore on their arms. The Sabines crushed her beneath their shields, rewarding treachery with death.
Hersilia and the Sabine women rushed between the Roman and Sabine armies to stop the battle, leading to the peace agreement between Romulus and Titus Tatius and their joint rule of Rome.
When Titus Tatius and the Sabines stormed Rome through the gate Tarpeia had opened, Janus unleashed a torrent of boiling water from his threshold, driving the invaders back and sealing the passage with volcanic heat.
Titus Tatius led the Sabines to war against Rome to avenge the abduction of the Sabine Women, who ended the conflict by rushing between the battle lines with their children, declaring they would rather die than see either their fathers or husbands slain.
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