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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't "Latin settlers" in this context basically mean "the settlers of Latium?"

[โ€“] Darkmuch 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was using the syntax I saw on Wikipedia which phrased it as

and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.