Brewer's: Titus the Roman Emperor

was called “the delight of men.” (40, 79-81.)

Titus indeed gave one short evening gleam, More cordral felt, as in the midst it spread Of storm and horror; the delight of men.

Thomson: Liberty, iii.

The Arch of Titus
commemorates the capture of Jerusalem, A.D. 70.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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