Latinus

Latin > English

Latinus Latina, Latinum ADJ :: Latin

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Lătīnus: a, um, v. Latium, II. B.
Lătīnus: i, m.,
I a king of the Laurentians, who favorably received Æneas and gave him his daughter Lavinia in marriage, Liv. 1, 2; Just. 43, 1; Verg. A. 7, 45 sq.: urbs Latini, i. e. Laurentum, id. ib. 6, 891.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) Lătīnus,⁸ a, um (Latium),
1 relatif au Latium, latin : Latina lingua Cic. Fin. 1, 10, la langue latine ; Latinus casus Varr. d. Diom. 277, l’ablatif [cas dont manque le grec] || n. subst. : in Latinum convertere Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, traduire en latin ; pl. Latina Cic. Arch. 23, les œuvres en latin || nihil Latinius Hier. Ep. 58, 3, rien de plus latin (en latin plus correct) ; homo Latinissimus Hier. Ep. 50, 2, qui possède le latin à fond
2 Lătīnī, ōrum, m., les Latins : Cic. Off. 1, 38, etc. || ceux qui avaient le jus Latii : Cic. Balbo 21 ; Sest. 30 ; Læl. 12 || v. Latinæ.
(2) Lătīnus,¹⁰ ī, m., roi du Latium, dont Énée épousa la fille Lavinie : Virg. En. 7, 45 ; Liv. 1, 2, 2.

Latin > German (Georges)

(1) Latīnus¹, a, um, s. Latium.
(2) Latīnus², ī, m., König im Laurentinischen, der Äneas aufnahm, ihm seine Tochter zur Frau gab und sein Reich hinterließ, Liv. 1, 1 sq. Verg. Aen. 7, 45: dah. urbs Latini, Laurentum, Verg. Aen. 6, 891.

Wikipedia EN

Latinus (Latin: Latinus; Ancient Greek: Λατῖνος, Latînos, or Λατεῖνος, Lateînos) was a figure both in Greek and Roman mythology. He is often associated with the heroes of the Trojan War, namely Odysseus and Aeneas. Although his appearance in the Aeneid is irreconcilable with his appearance in Greek mythology, the two pictures are not so different that he cannot be seen as one character.

In Hesiod's Theogony, 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. He was also depicted as the son of Odysseus and Calypso.

In later Roman mythology (notably Virgil's Aeneid), Latinus, or Lavinius, was a king of the Latins. He is sometimes described as the son of Faunus and Marica, and father of Lavinia with his wife, Amata. He hosted Aeneas's army of exiled Trojans and offered them the chance to reorganize their life in Old Latium. His wife Amata wished his daughter Lavinia to be betrothed to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus and the gods insisted that he give her instead to Aeneas; consequently, Turnus declared war on Aeneas and was killed two weeks into the conflict. Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, later founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings leading to Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.

Some suggest this version is not compatible with the Greek one: the Trojan War had ended only eight years earlier, and Odysseus only met Circe a couple of months later, so any son of the pair could only be seven years old, whereas the Roman Latinus had an adult daughter by then. The Roman Latinus from the Aeneid, son of Faunus, is a completely different person from the Greek Latinus, son of Circe and Odysseus. However, given the timing and era, it is more likely that they are in fact, the same figure.