Editing Latinus (section)

== Roman mythology ==
[[File:Bol-aeneas.jpg|thumb|''Aeneas at the Court of Latinus'' by [[Ferdinand Bol]]; [[Rijksmuseum]] Amsterdam]]
In later [[Roman mythology]] (notably [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''), Latinus, or Lavinius, was a king of the [[Latins (Italic tribe)|Latins]]. He is sometimes described as the son of [[Faunus]] and [[Marica (mythology)|Marica]], and father of [[Lavinia]] with his wife, [[Amata]]. He hosted Aeneas's army of exiled [[Trojan War|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]];<ref name="HardRose2004">{{cite book|author1=Robin Hard|author2=H. J. Rose|title=The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA590|year=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-18636-0|pages=590–}}</ref> 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]].