Alba Silvius (said to have reigned 1028–989 BC) was in
Roman mythology
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the fifth king of
Alba Longa. He was the son of
Latinus Silvius
Latinius Silvius (said to have reigned 1079–1028 BCDionysius of Halicarnassus ''Roman Antiquities'' 1.71) was the fourth descendant of Aeneas and fourth in the list of mythical kings of Alba Longa (according to Livy). Titus Livius credits him w ...
and the father of
Atys. He reigned thirty-nine years.
[ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. 71]
Later tradition
In
Geoffrey of Monmouth
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's pseudo-historical ''
Historia Regum Britanniae
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'' (), British king
Ebraucus sent his thirty daughters to Alba Silvius, where they were married among the Trojan nobility, as the
Latin
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and
Sabine
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The Sabines di ...
women refused to associate with them. Alba Silvius assisted
Ebraucus' twenty sons (except for
Brutus Greenshield) in conquering Germany. Geoffrey gives the name of his son and successor as "Sylvius Epitus", instead of Atys.
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Kings of Alba Longa