Titan

, or Titānus , a son of Cœlus and Terra, brother to Saturn and Hyper i on. He was the eldest of the children of Cœlus; but he gave his brother Saturn the kingdom of the world, provided he raised no male children. When the birth of Jupiter was concealed, Titan made war against Saturn, and with the a istance of his brothers the Titans, he imprisoned him till he was replaced on the throne by his son Jupiter. This tradition is recorded by Lac tanti us, a christian writer, who took it from the dramatic compositions of Ennius, now lost. None of the ancient mythologists, such as Apollo dor us, Hesiod, Hyginus, . , have made mention of Titan. Titan is a name applied to Saturn by Orpheus and Lucian, to the sun by Virgil and Ovid, and to Pro me the us by Juvenal. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , li. 10 .— Juvenal , satire 14, li. 35 .— Diodorus , bk. 5 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 11 .— Orpheus , hymn 13.— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 119 .