Lausus
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Lausus was the son of the ousted Etruscan king
pietas that Virgil praises throughout, exemplified in the relationships of Anchises and Aeneas and of Pallas and Evander. Aeneas immediately feels remorse for having killed the boy, and reproaches Lausus' men for keeping a distance rather than caring for the body: "Then to the stripling's tardy followers / he sternly called, and lifted from the earth / with his own hand the fallen foe: dark blood / defiled those princely tresses braided fair."[1]
Lausus is considered a foil to
King Evander
: both are young, come down from royal blood, are handsome, strong, full of filial piety, and both die at the hands of greater heroes.