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Roman horned god of the forest, plains and fieldsWikidata record description. Read Faunus in the Wikipedia reader.
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As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
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The family as a list · 8
Kinship in an account 8
- child of (child) Canens Roman personification of song
- child of (child) Picus Greek and Roman mythological figure
- parent of (father) Latinus king in Greek and Roman mythology
- parent of (child) Tarquitus mythological character
- partner of (spouse) Dryope nymph in Greek mythology
- partner of (spouse) Fauna Roman goddess; either the wife, sister, or daughter of Faunus
- partner of (spouse) Vitellia mythical goddess named by Suetonius as an ancestress of the Vitellii and treated by Niebuhr as mother of an eponymous Vitellius
- sibling of Fauna Roman goddess; either the wife, sister, or daughter of Faunus
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