His daughter Lavinia had been promised to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus received a prophecy that Lavinia would be betrothed to one from another land — namely, Aeneas.

The Aeneid ends in Book 12 with the taking of Latinus ' city, the death of Amata, and Aeneas ' defeat and killing of Turnus, whose pleas for mercy are spurned.

Prior to Aeneas ' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people.

King Latinus is greatly displeased with Turnus, but steps down and allows the war to commence.

In Virgil's Aeneid, and also according to Livy, the Rutuli are led by Turnus, a young prince to whom Latinus, king of the Latins, had promised the hand of his daughter Lavinia in marriage.

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

The rest of Aeneas's biography is gleaned from Livy: Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war.

* Orbis Latinus, site on Romance languages

** Orbis Latinus notes on irregular Asturian verbs

A 10th century codex, Codex Vossianus Latinus Q 69 found by Gino Zaninotto in the Vatican Library contains an 8th-century account saying that an imprint of Christ's whole body was left on a canvas kept in a church in Edessa: it quotes a man called Smera in Constantinople: " King Abgar received a cloth on which one can see not only a face but the whole body " ( in Latin: tantum faciei figuram sed totius corporis figuram cernere poteris ).

The three principal manuscripts ( Paris, Bibliothèque nationale Latinus 13026 ; Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, 426 ; and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale IV. A. 34 ) on which modern editions have been based were all written in early ninth-century France.

Latinus, king of the Latins, welcomed Aeneas ' army of exiled Trojans and let them reorganize their lives in Latium.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Book 7 ( beginning the Iliadic half ) opens with an address to the muse and recounts Aeneas arrival in Italy and betrothal to Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus.

The Trojans were thought to have landed in an area between modern Anzio and Fiumicino, southwest of Rome: probably at Laurentum, or in other versions, at Lavinium, a place named for Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus, whom Aeneas married.

The name of Lavinia was probably taken from the mythological figure of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of Latium, who, in Virgil's Aeneid, courts Aeneas as he attempts to settle his people in Latium.

Virgil says that he was the son of Saturnus and the grandfather of Latinus, the king of the Laurentines whom Aeneas and his Trojans fought upon reaching Italy.

In Roman mythology, Lavinia () is the daughter of Latinus and Amata and the last wife of Aeneas.

Other traditions held that Iulus was the son of Aeneas by his Trojan wife, Creusa, while Ascanius was the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, daughter of Latinus.

According to Roman mythology, which links Lavinium more securely to Rome, the city was named by Aeneas in honor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Latins, and his wife, Amata.

According to legend, the city was founded either by Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and Circe, or by the Latin king Latinus Silvius, a descendant of Aeneas, who according to Titus Livius was the founder of most of the towns and cities in Latium.

According to Livy and Dionysius the heir of Aeneas Silvius was named Latinus Silvius.

When the Trojans arrive in Italy, Latinus decides to give his daughter to Aeneas because of instructions he had received from the gods to marry his daughter to a foreigner.

* Letter of Immo, chaplain at the court of Worms, to Bishop Azeko of Worms, preserved in the Lorsch manuscript, Codex Palatinus Latinus 930 ( Vatican Library ), ed.

* Contrastive Romance Lexicology at Orbis Latinus

Latinus ( or Latinius ) Pacatus Drepanius, one of the Latin panegyrists, flourished at the end of the 4th century AD.

* The original text and English translation for the song of Roland follows Charles Scott Moncrieff ( London, 1919 ), as reproduced at Orbis Latinus ; many variant texts exist.

Towards the end of Hesiod's Theogony ( 1011f ), we find that Circe bore Odysseus three sons: Ardeas or Agrius ( otherwise unknown ); Latinus ; and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans.

It is remarkable that the composition of this league does not reflect that of the Latin people who took part in the Latiar or Feriae Latinae given by Pliny and it has not as its leader the rex Nemorensis but a dictator Latinus.

Faunus was known as the father or husband or brother of Fauna, and of Latinus by the nymph Marica ( who was also sometimes Faunus ' mother ).

In Hesiod's Theogony, Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, presumably the Etruscans, with his brothers Ardeas and Telegonus.

Locrus, a son of Phaeax who emigrated to Italy where he married Laurina, the daughter of Latinus.

Latinus was fathered by Faunus, who was also occasionally referred to as the son of Marica.

Brunetto Latini ( c. 1220 – 1294 ) ( who signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian ) was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.

At the mouth of the Liris near Minturnae, was an extensive sacred grove consecrated to Marica, a nymph or local divinity, who was represented by a tradition, adopted by Virgil, as mother of Latinus, while others identified her with Circe.

He negotiates a settlement with the local king, Latinus, and was wed to his daughter, Lavinia.

Latin could be sermo Latinus, but in addition was a variety known as sermo vulgaris, sermo vulgi, sermo plebeius and sermo quotidianus.

Others relate that he was induced by Athena to marry Circe, and became by her the father of Latinus ( Hygin.

Latinus () was a figure in both Greek and Roman mythology.

In later Roman mythology ( notably Virgil's Aeneid ), Latinus, or Lavinius, was a king of the Latins.

Amata ( also called Palanto ), in Roman mythology, was the wife of King Latinus of the Latins.

In Roman mythology, Marica was a nymph, the mother of Latinus.

It was first mentioned in Codex Latinus Parisinus in 1395, during the reign of Mircea I of Wallachia, and was conquered by the Ottomans in 1420 as a way to control the Danube traffic.

Although the name Mozarabic is today used for many Romance languages, the native name ( autonym or endonym ) of the language was not " Muzarab " or " Mozarab " but Latinus or Latino.

This means that the word Latinus or Latino had the meaning of spoken Romance language, and it was only contrasted with classical Latin ( lingua Latina ) a few centuries later.