For other use, see Aborigines

The Aborigines in Roman mythology

Roman mythology

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 are the oldest inhabitants of central Italy

Italy

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, connected in legendary history with Aeneas

Aeneas

Aeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...

, Latinus

Latinus

Latinus was a figure in both Greek and Roman mythology.-Greek mythology:In Hesiod's Theogony, Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, presumably the Etruscans, with his brothers Ardeas and Telegonus...

 and Evander

Evander

In Roman mythology, Evander , also spelled Euander, was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years...

. They were supposed to have descended from their mountain home near Reate (an ancient Sabine

Sabine

The Sabines were an Italic tribe that lived in the central Appennines of ancient Italy, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome...

 town) upon Latium

Latium

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, whence they expelled the Siceli and subsequently settled down as Latini under a King Latinus

Latinus

Latinus was a figure in both Greek and Roman mythology.-Greek mythology:In Hesiod's Theogony, Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, presumably the Etruscans, with his brothers Ardeas and Telegonus...

. The most generally accepted etymology of the name (ab origine), according to which they were the original inhabitants (autochthon

Autochthon

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) of the country, is inconsistent with the fact that the oldest authorities regarded them as Hellenic

Greece

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 immigrants, not as a native Italian people. Other explanations suggested are arbor

Arbor

Arbor or arbour may refer to:*Arbor , a landscape structure*Arbor or mandrel*Arbor, California*Arbor, a counterweight-carrying device found in theater fly systems...

igines, "tree-born," and aberr

Aberration

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igines, "nomads." Lycophron

Lycophron

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calls a people of central Italy, Boreigonoi.