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Inside Roman mythology, Lavinia was the girl of Latinus and Amata. Latinus, a caring king of the Latins, hosted Aeneas' army of exiled Trojans and let them reorganize their life around Latium. His girl Lavinia experienced been promised to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus favorite to offer her to Aeneas; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas (at a urging of Juno). A effect was that Turnus was flushed & his humans captured. Ascanius, the boy of Aeneas, founded Alba Longa and was the number 1 within an extended series of kings. Aeneas & Lavinia got 1 boy, Silvius. He known as a city Lavinium after her.
Within biology, Lavinia is a genus of fish of the Cyprinid family.
Lavinia is too the character inside Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus. Around Latin, Lavinia means purity.
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