Faunus lay with the nymph Marica at her sacred grove near the Liris, and she bore him Latinus, who would one day rule the Laurentine people and welcome the Trojans to Italian shores.
⚠ Varro (via Augustine, City of God 18.15) and Macrobius (Saturnalia 1.12.21) name Fauna rather than Marica as Latinus's mother.
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