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LATINUS , in See also:Roman See also:legend, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:aborigines in See also:Latium, and See also:eponymous See also:hero of the Latin See also:race. In See also:Hesiod (Tlteogony, 1013) he is the son of See also:Odysseus and See also:Circe, and ruler of the Tyrsenians; in See also:Virgil, the son of See also:Faunus and the nymph Marica, a See also:national See also:genealogy being substituted for the Hesiodic, which probably originated from a See also:Greek source. Latinus was a shadowy See also:personality, invented to explain the origin of See also:Rome and its relations with Latium, and only obtained importance in later times through his legendary connexion with See also:Aeneas and the See also:foundation of Rome. According to Virgil (Aeneid, vii.-xii.), Aeneas, on landing at the mouth of the See also:Tiber, was welcomed by Latinus, the peaceful ruler whose seat of See also: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 See also:Cato's Origines (in Servius's commentary on Virgil) and in See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus; see further authorities in the See also:article by J. A. Hild, in Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites.
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