Turnus

A son of Daunus and Venilia, and king of the Rutulians at the time of the arrival of Aeneas in Italy.1 He was a brother of Juturna and related to Amata, the wife of king Latinus.2 Alecto, by the command of Juno, stirred him up to fight against Aeneas after his landing in Italy.3 He appears in the Aeneid as a brave warrior, but in the end he fell by the hand of the victorious Aeneas.4

Livy5 and Dionysius also mention him as king of the Rutulians, who allied himself with the Etruscans against the Latins, consisting of Aborigenes and Trojans. The Rutulians according to their account indeed were defeated, but Aeneas fell.

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid x, 76, 616.
  2. ibid. xii, 138.
  3. ibid. vii, 408 ff.
  4. ibid. xii, 926 ff.
  5. Livy. The History of Rome i, 2.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.