• DragonTypeWyvern
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t “Latin settlers” in this context basically mean “the settlers of Latium?”

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      1 year ago

      I was using the syntax I saw on Wikipedia which phrased it as

      and the poem’s second half tells of the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.