Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Daunus" | Greek | A son of Pilumnus and Danae, was married to Venilia. |
King name "Turnus" | Italy | A son of Daunus and Venilia, and king of the Rutulians at the time of the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. |
Nymph name "Venilia" | Roman | A Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.) |