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Turnus

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Turnus (tûr`nəs), in Roman legend, king of the Rutulians. In the Aeneid he is a spirited warrior. When his betrothed, Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus, was given to the Trojan Aeneas by her father, Turnus led a combined force of Latins and Rutulians against the Trojans. After several bloody battles, Turnus was killed by Aeneas.
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Lavinia becomes an observer and commentator of the action, until her foretold lover strikes down Turnus in personal combat.
Le Guin, Ursula: Lavinia by Saxby, Maurice / Reading Time
He hesitates for a moment, as Aeneas does when Turnus begs for pity in the final book of The Aeneid, indicated in the stage direction: 'Let Horestes syt hard'.
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