Aeneas Silvius

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.Livy, i. 3. Dionysius of HalicarnassusDionysius, i. 71. ascribes to him a reign of 31 years.Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 769. Ovid does not mention him among the Alban kings.Ovid, Transformations'', xiv. 610, etc. According to Livy and Dionysius the heir of Aeneas Silvius was named Latinus Silvius.

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* William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.