Rutuli (Rutulians) A people of ancient Italy inhabiting Ardea and the land surrounding Latium.
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Rutuli (Rutulians) A people of ancient Italy inhabiting Ardea and the land surrounding Latium. Their king was Turnus, who was killed in battle with the Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan War, who settled in Italy.
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- Latium Roman In ancient times, a region in west-central Italy, south and east of the Tiber River on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- Mephitis (Mefitis) Roman A goddess who protected the people of Rome and surrounding cities in Italy from the dangerous fumes of sulphur that spewed from the many volcanoes and the gaseous vents surrounding them.
- indigetes (dii indigites) Roman Apparently, lesser gods of the many people who inhabited Central Italy in the seventh and early sixth centuries b.
- Latinus Roman A legendary, perhaps historical, king of the Latini or Latins, an original people of central Italy, and the hero from whom that people got their name.
- Pirithoüs Greek Son of Zeus and Dia, the wife of Ixion; king of the Lapiths, a mythical people inhabiting the mountains of Thessaly; friend of the hero Theseus.