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NUMITOR, SON OF SILVIUS. Despoiled of his kingdom by his brother Amulius, he was restored to the throne by Romulus after Amulius was killed. Cassiodorus, Livy, Dionysius.
ILIA, who is also called RHEA and SILVIA, DAUGHTER OF NUMITOR, GRANDDAUGHTER OF SILVIUS. A Vestal Virgin, she was forced implying sexual violation or cohabitation in the sixth year of King Amulius and bore twins. By the king's order, she was buried alive underground. Livy, Dionysius.
ROMULUS QUIRINUS, SON OF MARS, GRANDSON OF JUPITER, THE OFFSPRING, FIRST KING OF ROME. He founded the city of Rome. He established 100 Senators for the sake of public counsel. He triumphed over the Caeninenses, Antemnates, Camertines, Fidenates, and Veientes, and, after killing Acron, king of the Caeninenses, he was the first to hang the spolia opima the choicest spoils of war taken by a general from an enemy commander for Jupiter Feretrius. HE REIGNED FOR 36 YEARS, 2 MONTHS, AND 12 DAYS. He ceased to appear on the Nones of July near the Goat’s Swamp. Livy (Book 1), Dionysius (Book 2), Plutarch (in his Life), Strabo (Book 5), Velleius (Book 1), Orosius (Book 1, Chapter 4), Justin (Book 43), Cassiodorus, Eutropius, Virgil (Book 6), Cicero (De Officiis 3), Fabius Pictor (Book 2).
AOLLIUS, WHO WAS LATER CALLED ALBILIUS, QUIRINUS, SON OF ROMULUS, GRANDSON OF MARS. The author Zenodotus is the witness, according to Plutarch. However, Dionysius, and Plutarch following him, report that he died without children.
AMULIUS, SON OF SILVIUS. He seized by force the kingdom which was owed to his elder brother, and reigned for 42 YEARS. He was killed by the brothers Romulus and Remus. Cassiodorus, Livy, Dionysius.
REMUS QUIRINUS, SON OF MARS, GRANDSON OF JUPITER. Defeated by the auspices of Romulus, he soon fell in battle, as Dionysius reports, or, as others say, he was killed by his brother when he jumped over the city walls which Romulus had declared sacred. Livy (Book 1), Dionysius (Book 2), Plutarch (in Romulus).
PRIMA QUIRINA, DAUGHTER OF ROMULUS, GRANDDAUGHTER OF MARS.