Tityrus
Tityros (Greek) or Tityrus (Latin) is the name of a shepherd in ancient bucolic poetry.
The name is first used by Theocrit ( Idyll 3, 2-4), then mainly by the Roman poet Virgil in his eclogues .
In the first eclogue, the displaced Meliboeus meets Tityrus, who is resting in the shade of a beech tree. Tityrus tells Meliboeus about his doubly successful trip to Rome . Firstly, he was able to buy his way out there; secondly, he saw “a god” in Rome (probably meant Octavian, the later Augustus ), whom he will always praise. Opposite the fate of Tityrus is that of Meliboeus, who, driven from house and land, does not know where to turn with his goats. For the night that is already falling, Tityrus offers him his house as accommodation.
Tityrus is also mentioned in Virgil's third, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth Eclogues.