I was reading the ***Aeneid by Virgil*** and it looks like the ***Romans*** allegedly descended from the ***Trojan*** soldier ***Aeneas***. The book then explains how this soldier fathered generations that fathered someone called ***Romulus*** who founded the ***city of Rome***. Since ***Latin*** was the official language used in ancient Rome, I suppose its the ***Latins*** and not the descendants of Aeneas that built the ***Roman Republic***. So what is the true identity of the Romans, descendants of the Trojan warrior or are were they just the natural inhabitants of the ***Latinian*** kingdom just expanding in all directions?