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For the pope born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius in Latin), see Pope Pius II.

Aeneas Silvius is the son of Silvius, grandson of Ascanius and great-grandson of Aeneas. He is the third in the list of the mythical kings of Alba Longa in Latium, and the Silvii regarded him as the founder of their house.^[1] Dionysius of Halicarnassus^[2] ascribes to him a reign of 31 years.^[3] Ovid does not mention him among the Alban kings.^[4] According to Livy and Dionysius the heir of Aeneas Silvius was named Latinus Silvius.

Notes

^ Livy, i. 3.
^ Dionysius, i. 71.
^ Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 769.
^ Ovid, Transformations, xiv. 610, etc.

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