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n. - An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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  • Lavinia's pre-Roman Latium is pagan, of course, but does not have the anthropomorphised gods that Virgil knows.
  • The country in which the Trojans had now landed was called Latium, and
  • Thereupon Æneas founded a city which he named Lavinium and the country was called Latium and the people there were termed Latins.
  • Deceptive letters being sent around Latium and the
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