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, a daughter of king Latin us and Amata. She was betrothed to her relation king Turnus, but because the oracle ordered her father to marry her to a foreign prince, she was given to Æneas after the death of Turnus. See: Latin us . At her husband’s death she was left pregnant, and being fearful of the tyranny of As can i us her son-in-law, she fled into the woods, where she brought forth a son called Æneas Sylvius. Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 .— Virgil , Æneid , bks. 6 & 7.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 14 , li. 507 .— Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .