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manuscripts Syllanus and Sillanus.
Jug. 43; Eutrop. iv, 11. s. 27 ; Flor. iii. 3. & 4;
SILA'NUS, A'PPIUS. [SILANUS, JUNIUS, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 20, Verr. ii. 47; Ascon. in
No. 11. )
Cornel. pp. 68, 80, ed. Orelli. )
SILA'NUS, CASSIUS, the avunculus of Ger- 5. D. Junius SILANUS, probably a younger
manicus Caesar (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 7. s. 18). son of No. 4, was the step-father of M. Brutus, the
SILA'NUS, CRE'TICUS, as he is called by murderer of Caesar, having married his mother
Tacitus, is mentioned as governor of Syria in A. D. Servilia. He was acdile about B. c. 70, when he
16, but was removed from the government by exhibited very magnificent garnes, and notwith-
Tiberius in the following year on account of the standing was unsuccessful in his application for
connection of his family with Germanicus, inas- the consulship for the year B. c. He
much as a daughter of Silanus had been betrothed was elected consul in the comitia held in the
to Nero, the eldest of the children of Germanicus summer of B. C. 63, and in consequence of his
(Tac. Ann. ii. 4, 43). From his names Creticus being consul designatus was first asked for his opi-
Silanus it has been conjectured that he originally I nion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the
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SILANUS.
SILANUS.
STEMMA JUNIORUM SILANORUM.
1. M. Junius Silanus, pr. B. c. 212.
2. D. Silanus, about B. c. 146.
3. 1). Silanus Mavlianus, pr. B. c. 142.
4. M. Silanus, cos. B. c. 109.
5. D. Silanus, cos. B. C. 62, m. Servilia.
C. Silanus ?
Junia, m. Lepidus, IIIvir.
Junia, m. C. Cassius.
6. M. Silanus,
COS. B. c. 25.
7. C. Silanus, cob. B. c. 19
8. M. Silanus, cos. A. D. 19.
9. D. Silanus.
Claudia or Junia Claudilla, m. the emperor Caligula.
Junia Silana, m. C. Silius, A. D. 47. (Silana. )
10. C. Silanus, cos. A. D. 10.
ll. Ap. Silanus, cog. A. D. 28, m. Aemilia Lepida, the proncptis Augusti.
12. M. Silanus, 13. L. Silanus, 14. D. Torquatus Silanus, Julia Calvina, Junia Lepida,
abnepos Augusti, abnepos Augusti, abnepos Augusti, abneptis Augusti, abneptis Augusti,
cos. A. D. 46. m. Octavia,
cos. A. D. 53,
m. Vitellius.
m. Cassius
the dr. of the emperor
[CALVINA. ) the jurist.
Claudius, killed A. D. 49.
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15. L. Torquatus Silanus, atnepos Augusti, killed a. D. 65.
16. C. Silanus, cos. suff. A. D. 92.
17. Silanus, cos. A. D. 189.
18. Silanus. cos. A. D. 237.
punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. He de- , ing year Lepidus sent him with a detachment of
clared himself in favour of inflicting the extreme troops into Cisalpine Gaul, as the senate had ur-
punishment upon the conspirators ; but after the gently pressed Lepidus to assist the consuls Hirtius
speech of Caesar, he said that he should vote in and Pansa, who were advancing against Antony to
favour of the proposition of Tib. Nero, who had compel him to raise the siege of Mutina. Lepidus,
recommended that they should be kept in prison however, gave Silanus no precise instructions as to
till Catiline was conquered, affirming that he had his line of conduct; and the latter guessing the
not recommended that they should be put to death, real wishes of his general, espoused the side of
but that they should be imprisoned, as this was Antony. After the defeat of Antony Silanus
the extreme of punishment to a Roman senator, recrossed the Alps and returned to Lepidus, who
(Cic. de Of. ii. 16, ad Att. i. 1 ; Sall. Cut. 50 ; affected to be displeased with his conduct, and.
Cic. in Cat. iv. 4, ad Att. xii. 21. § 7 ; Appian, would not at first allow him to come into his
B. C. ii. 5 ; Suet. Caes. 14 ; Plut. Cic. 20, 21, presence.
Silanus afterwards became obnoxious to
Cat. 22). Silanus was consul B. C. 62, with L. the triumvirs, though the reason is not mentioned,
Licinius Murena, along with whom he proposed the and fled to Sex. Pompey in Sicily. At the peace
Lex Licinia Junia, which enacted that a rogatio of Misenum, in B. C. 39, he returned to Rome, and
must be promulgated three nundines before the eventually won the favour of Octavian so completely
people voted upon it. It confirmed the Lex Cae- that he raised him to the consulship in B. c. 25.
cilia Didia (Cic. pro Sest. 64, in Vatin. 14, Phil. v. (Caes. B. G. vi. 1 ; Dion Cass. xlvi. 38, 51 ; Cic.
3, ad Att. ii. 9, iv. 16). Pliny (H. N. ii. 35) ad Fum. x. 30, 34 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 77 ; Dion Cass.
speaks of Silanus as proconsul. As an orator liii. 25. ) Silanus had two sisters, one married to
Silanus owed more to nature than to study. (Cic. M. Lepidus, the triumvir, and the other to C.
Brut. 68. )
Cassius, one of Caesar's murderers. (JUNIA, Nos.
6. M. JUNIUS SILANUS, son of No. 5 and of 2 and 3. )
Servilia, served in Gaul as Caesar's legatus in B. C. 7. C. JUNIUS C. F. SILANUS, consul R. C. 19
53, but does not appear to have been employed in with C. Furnius, may perhaps have been a cousin
any undertaking of importance. After Caesar's of No. 6. (Dion Cass. liv. 18. )
murder in B. C. 44, he accompanied his brother-in- 8. M. JUNIUS M. F. SIL ANUS, son of No. 6, constu
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SILANUS.
These consuls gave their name to the Lex Junia appear that App. Silanus married Aemilia Lepida,
Norbana, which enacted that slaves manumitted the proneptis or great-granddaughter of Augustus.
without the requisite formalities should, in certain The genealogy would therefore stand thus :
cases, have the status of Latini : such persons were
1. Augustus.
called Latini Juniani (see Dict. of Antig. p. 693, a,
2. Julia, filia,
2d ed. ). Tacitus speaks of Silanus as pre-emi-
m. M. Agrippa
nently distinguished by his high nobility and elo-
3. Julia, nepris,
quence.
In A. D. 20 he obtained from Tiberius
m. L. Aemilius Paulus
the recal of his brother (No. 9) from exile. Like
4. Lepida, proneptis,
the other senators he endeavoured to gain the
favour of the emperor by fiattery. He proposed in
m. App. Junius Silanus.
A. D. 22 that all public and private documents Aemilia Lepida, the wife of App. Silanus, was at
should not bear in future the names of the consuls, an early age betrothed to the emperor Claudius
but the names of those who possessed the tribuni- long before his accession to the throne, but was
cian power, that is, of the emperors. In A. D. 33 divorced soon afterwards (Lerida. No. 3, where
his daughter Claudia, or Junia Claudilla, as she her subsequent marringe to App. Silnnus ought to
is called by Suctonius (Cul. 12), was married have been stated). By his second wife Domitin
to C. Caesar, afterwards the emperor Caligula. Lepida, the mother of Messiilina, App. Silanus of
Silanus was governor of Africa in the reign of course had no children. Suetonius (Cluml. 29)
Caligula ; but the suspicious tyrant feared his calls App. Silanus the consocer of Claudius, because
father-in-law, and accordingly first deprived him of his son L. Silanus was betrothed to Octavia, the
all power in the province by compelling him to daughter of Claudius.
share the government with an imperial legatus, and 12. M. JUNIUS SILANUS, a son of No. 11, was
afterwards compelled him to put an end to his life. consul under Claudius A. D. 46 with Valerius
Julius Graecinus, the father of Agricola, had been Asiaticus. He was born in the same year in
ordered by Caligula to accuse Silanus, but he de- which Augustus died, A. D. 14, and it is mentioned
clined the odious task. (Tac. Ann. ii. 59, iii. 24, by Pliny as a singular fact that Augustus lived to
57, vi. 20, Hist. iv. 48, Agr. 4 ; Dion Cass. lvii. see his great-great-grandson.
Silanus was pro-
18, lix. 8 ; Suet. Cal. 12, 23. )
consul of Asia at the succession of Nero in A. D.
9. D. Junius Silanus, a brother of No. 8, was 54, and was poisoned by command of Agrippina,
one of the paramours of Julia, the grand daughter of who feared that he might avenge the death of his
Augustus, and voluntarily withdrew into exile when brother (No. 13), and that his descent from Au-
the adulteries of Julia were discovered. Tiberius gustus might lead him to be preferred to the youthful
allowed him to return to Rome in A. D. 20 on the Nero (Dion Cass. 1x. 27 ; Plin. H. N. vii, 11 ; Tac.
intercession of his brother Marcus, but did not Ann. xiii. 4). Tacitus relates (l. c. ) that Silanus
advance him to any of the honours of the state. was so far from being ambitious, that Caligula used
(Tac. Ann. iii. 24. )
to call him his "
pecus aurea," but Dion Cassius
10. C. JUNIUS SILanus, described as Flamen (lix. 8) with more probability refers this epithet to
Martialis in the Capitoline Fasti, was consul the father in-law of Caligula [No. 8).
A. D. 10, with P. Cornelius Dolabella. Judge 13. L. JUNIUS SILANUS, likewise a son of
ing from his praenomen we may suppose him to No. 11, was betrothed to Octavia, the daughter of
have been son of No. 7 ; but this is opposed to the emperor Claudius, in A. D. 41. The emperor
the Capitoline Fasti, in which he is described as conferred upon him the triumphal ornaments when
C. F. M. N. Silanus was afterwards proconsul of he was still a boy, and exhibited in his name
Asia, and in A. D 22 was accused of malversation magnificent gladiatorial games. But as Agrippina
by the provincials. To this crime his accusers in had resolved to marry Octavia to her own soir
the senate added that of treason (majestas), and it Domitius, afterwards the emperor Nero, it was
was proposed to banish him to the island of necessary to put Silanus out of the way. It was
Gyaros ; but Tiberius changed the place of his easy to persuade the foolish emperor of any thing,
exile to the less in hospitable island of Cynthus, and he therefore readily believed the charges
which his sister Torquata had begged might be the brought against Silanus.