Latinus ruled Latium as an aged king whose long peace was shattered when fate brought Aeneas to his shores, forcing him to surrender his daughter and his kingdom's future to the Trojan stranger.
Picus reigned as the first king of Latium, ruling from Laurentum in the age before Faunus and Latinus, when the land still remembered Saturn's Golden Age.
Saturn reigned over Latium as king after his exile from heaven, gathering the scattered hill peoples under his laws and teaching them to farm, establishing the fabled Golden Age that Romans remembered each year at the Saturnalia.
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