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LATINUS , in Roman legend
Latium
Hesiod
Circe
Faunus and the nymph Marica, a national genealogy being substituted for the Hesiodic, which probably originated from a Greek
Latium
foundation of Rome. According to Virgil (Aeneid, vii.-xii.), Aeneas, on landing at the mouth of the Tiber, was welcomed by Latinus, the peaceful ruler whose seat of government was Laurentum, and ultimately married his daughter Lavinia.Other accounts of Latinus, differing considerably in detail, are to be found in the fragments of Cato's Origines (in Servius's commentary on Virgil) and in Dionysius
Halicarnassus
article
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