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In Hesiod's Theogony, [1] Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrrhenians with his brothers Agrius and Telegonus.According to the Byzantine author John the Lydian, Hesiod, in the Catalogue of Women, considered Latinus to be the brother of Graecus, who is described as the son of Zeus by Pandora, the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. [2]
Laurentius (feminine Laurentia), meaning "someone from Laurentum" or "The one who wears a laurel wreath", [citation needed] was a common Roman given name. According to Virgil's Aeneid , the city of Laurentum and its people the Laurentines gained the name because the laurel tree was Latinus' favourite.
According to this, the Latin tribe's first king was Latinus, who gave his name to the tribe and founded the first capital of the Latins, Laurentum, whose exact location is uncertain. The Trojan hero Aeneas and his men fled by sea after the capture and sack of their city, Troy , by the Greeks in 1184 BC, according to one ancient calculation.
According to Roman mythology, Amata / ə ˈ m eɪ t ə / (also called Palanto) was the wife of Latinus, king of the Latins, and the mother of their only child, Lavinia.In the Aeneid of Virgil, she commits suicide during the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus over which of them would marry Lavinia.
Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men who hoped to become the king of Latium. [2] Turnus, ruler of the Rutuli, was the most likely of the suitors, having the favor of Queen Amata. [3]
Latin being an inflected language, names in a Latin context may have different word-endings to those shown here, which are given in the nominative case. For instance Roma (Rome) may appear as Romae meaning "at Rome" (), "of Rome" or "to/for Rome" (), as Romam meaning "Rome" as a direct object (), or indeed as Romā with a long a, probably not indicated in the orthography, meaning "by, with or ...
12th century depiction of Latin Crusaders. In the Eastern Roman Empire, and the broader Greek-Orthodox world, Latins was a synonym for all people who followed the Roman Catholicism [4] of Western Christianity, [5] regardless of ethnicity. [6]
The remaining Siculians joined with the Aborigines eventually becoming the people known as Prisci Latini (meaning old Latins), that is Prisci et Latini, or simply Latini. [1] The Aborigines did not become Latini until the reign of their king, Latinus, from whom the Romans attributed their name.