place
Alba Longa
also: Long Alba, Alba
The mother-city of Rome in Latium, whence Proculus Julius came.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.8 make for Alba
Alba (the Alban hills), a fashionable district near Rome reached by the Appian Way; part of the leisured Italian life Ovid imagines for his friend.
- The Festivals §2.17 Alba Longa
Rome's mother-city in Latium, from which Proculus Julius came.
- The Festivals §4.proem Alba
Alba Longa, the Latin city founded by Ascanius and seat of the Silvian kings before Rome.