King of the Latins whom Ovid names son of Faunus, whose daughter Lavinia Aeneas won after war with Turnus — not to be confused with Latinus son of Odysseus and Circe in Hesiod and Hyginus, nor with Odysseus' son Latinus by Calypso in Apollodorus.1
When Aeneas came to the Tiber's groves, Ovid says he fell heir to a home and won the daughter of Latinus, Faunus' son, not without war: Turnus, a young chief of a fierce people, fought to hold a promised bride, and with Latium all Etruria was embroiled until Venus saw her son victorious and Turnus fell.2
Hyginus preserves a wholly different Latinus in the Returns catalogue: from Circe and Telemachus was born Latinus, who gave his name to the Latin language — the Odysseus strand that must not be merged with the Laurentine king who receives Aeneas in Ovid's Italian books.3
Hesiod and Apollodorus likewise know a Latinus born to Odysseus — by Circe in the Theogony's appendix, by Calypso in the Nostoi epitome — figures of the Greek Returns, not the king at Lavinium.4
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