Latinus wire of Faunus

See also: Latinus

In the Greek Mythology and especially Roman, Latinus was king of the Latium.

The traditions diverge much on its ascent: the Greeks generally make of them the son of Circé, which it would have had with Ulysses (at Hésiode, which makes of it the brother of Agrios and Télégonos), or with Télémaque - but lend sometimes also to him Calypso for mother, or give birth to it from Héraclès and a Hespéride; among Romans, it is generally wire of Faunus and the Italic nymph Marica. According to this tradition, it is, by his father Faunus, the grandson of Picus and the nymph Canens, which make at the same time him to it great-grandson of the gods Saturn, father of Picus, and Janus, father of Canens.

It had had of his wife Amata a son died in the flower of the age. There remained to him nothing any more but one girl, Lavinia, young princess sought in marriage by several princes of Italy, and especially by Turnus, king of Rutules, that Amata, the maternal aunt of this young monarch, supported. But of alarming wonders had delayed this union.

One day that the princess burned perfumes on the furnace bridge, fire took with its hair, stuck to its clothing, spread around it swirls of flame and smoke, without it testing any evil of it. The consulted soothsayers forecast that its destiny would be brilliant, but fatal with its people; and Faunus defended in Latinus to marry his/her daughter with a prince of Latium, announcing a foreigner whose blood mixed with his was to raise to the sky the glory of the Latin name.

It was whereas Énée approached in Italy, and required an asylum of Latinus. The king accepted it, and, remembering the oracle of Faunus, it made alliance with Énée, and his/her daughter in marriage offered to him. Latin opposed and forced their prince with the war it. The Trojan having had the advantage killed Turnus, became owner of the princess and heir to Latinus, whose Amata wife, hung rage (or of despair) by seeing Latin at the edge of the defeat.

Widow of Énée and seeing throne occupied by Ascagne (wire that Énée had had of a first union), Lavinia was not without fear for its days. It went to hide in the forests where it put at the world a son who took the name of Silvius. The absence of this princess made murmur the people; Ascagne was obliged to make it seek and to yield the town of Lavinium to him.

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