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820 SILANUS. SILANUS.
STEMMA JUNIORUM SILANORUM.
1. M. Junius Silanus, pr. B. c. 212.
2. D. Silanus, about B. C. 146.
3. D. Silanus Manllianus. pr. B.C. 142.
4. M. Silanus, coS. B. C. 1 09.
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5. D. Silanus, cos. B. C. 62, m. Servilia. C. Silanus?
6. M. Silanus, Junia, m. Lepidus, IIIvir. Junia, m. C. Cassius. 7. C. Silanus, cos. B. C. 19
COS. B. C. 25.
8. M. Silauus, cos. A. D. 19. 9. D. Silanus.
Claudia or Junia Claudilla, in. the emperor Caligula. Junia Silana, m. C. Silius,. D. 47. [SILANA.]
10. C. Silanus, cos. A. D. 10.
] 1. Ap. Silanus, cos. A. D. 28, m. Aemilia Lepida, the proneptis Augusti.
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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.
15. L. Torquatus Silanus, atnepos Augusti, killed A. D. 65.
16. C. Silanus, cos. suif. 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
dared himself in favour of inflicting the extreme troops into Cisalpine Gaul, as the senate had urpunishment 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 Qf. ii. 16, ad Att. i. 1; Sall. Cat. 50; affected to be displeased with his conduct, and
Cic. in C(at. 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,
Licinins 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 upan it. It confirmed the Lex Cae- that he raised him to the consulship in B. c. 2C.
cilia Didia (Cic. pro Sest. 64, in Vatin. 14, Phil. v. (Caes. B. G. vi. 1; Dion Cass. xlvi. 38, 51; Cic.
3, ad Alt. ii. 9, iv. 16). Pliny (H. N. ii. 35) ad Facz. x. 30, 34; Vell. Pat. ii. 77; Dion C;ass.
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 SIIANUS, son of No. 5 and of 2 and 3.]
Servilia, served in Gaul as Caesar's legatus in B. C. 7. C. JUNIUIS C. F. SIsANUS, consul B. 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. SILA NUS, son of No. 6, consul
law M. Lepidus over the Alps; and in the follow — under Tiberius, A. D. 19, with L. Norbanus Baibus.