person
Lavinia
Daughter of King Latinus, promised first to Turnus, then to Aeneas; the cause of the war in Latium and ancestress of the Roman line.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.450 house of Faunus's son and the daughter of Latinus
Latinus, son of the woodland god Faunus, king of Latium; his daughter Lavinia, betrothed to Turnus, is given to Aeneas -- the spark of the Latin war.