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Rh 820 SILANUS. SILANUS. STEMMA JUNIORUM SILANORUM. 1. M. Junius Silanus, pr. B.c. 212. 2. D. Silanus, about B.C. 146. 3. D. Silanus Manlianus, pr. B.c. 142. 4. M. Silanus, cos. B.C. 109. S. D. Silanus, cos. B. c. 62, m. Servilia. I C. Silanus? 1 6. M. Silanus, COS. B. c. 25. I Junia, m. Lepidus, Illvir. Junia, m. C. Cassius. 7. C. Silanus, cos. b. c. 19 8. M. Silanus, cos. a. d. 19. I I 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, 1 1. Ap. Silanus, cos. A. d. 28, ra. Aemilia Lepida, the proneptis Augusti. - Junia Lepida, I I I 12. M. Silanus, 13. L. Silanus, 14. D. Torquatus Silanus, Julia Calvina, abnepos Augusti, abnepos Augusti, abnepos Augusti, abneptis Augusti, abneptis Augusti, cos. A. D. 46. m. Octavia, the dr. of the emperor Claudius, killed a.d. 49. cos. A. D. 53. m. Vitellius. [Calvina.] m. Cassius the jurist. 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 Catllinarian conspirators. He de- clared himself in favour of inflicting the extreme punishment upon the conspirators ; but after the speech of Caesar, he said that he should vote in favour of the proposition of Tib. Nero, who had recommended that they should be kept in prison till Catiline was conquered, affirming that he had not recommended that they should be put to death, but that they should be imprisoned, as this was the extreme of punishment to a Roman senator. (Cic. de Of. ii. 16, ad Att. i. 1 ; Sail. Cat 50 ; Cic. in Cat. iv. 4, ad Att. xii. 21. § 7 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 5 ; Suet. Caes. 14 ; Plut. Cic. 20, 21, Cai. 22). Silanus was consul b. c. 62, with L. Licinius Murena, along with whom he proposed the Lex Licinia Junia, which enacted that a rogatio must be promulgated three nundines • before the people voted upon it. It confirmed the Lex Cae- cilia Didia (Cic. pro Sest. 64, in Vatin. 14, Phil. v. 3, ad Att. ii. 9, iv. 16). Pliny (//. N. ii. 35) speaks of Silanus as proconsul. As an orator Silanus owed more to nature than to study. (Cic. Brut. 68.) 6. M. Junius Silanus, son of No. 5 and of Servilia, served in Gaul as Caesar's legatus in B, c. 53, but does not appear to have been employed in any undertaking of importance. After Caesar's murder in b. c. 44, he accompanied his brother-in- law M. Lepidus over the Alps ; and in the follow- ing year Lepidus sent him with a detachment of troops into Cisalpine Gaul, as the senate had ur- gently pressed Lepidus to assist the consuls Hirtius and Pansa, who were advancing against Antony to compel him to raise the siege of Mutina. Lepidus, however, gave Silanus no precise instructions as to his line of conduct ; and the latter guessing the real wishes of his general, espoused the side of Antony. After the defeat of Antony Silanus recrossed the Alps and returned to Lepidus, who affected to be displeased with his conduct, and would not at first allow him to come into his presence. Silanus afterwards became obnoxious to the triumvirs, though the reason is not mentioned, and fled to Sex. Pompey in Sicily. At the peace of Misenum, in b. c. 39, he returned to Rome, and eventually won the favour of Octavian so completely that he raised him to the consulship in B. c. 2.5. (Caes. B. G. vi. 1 ; Dion Cass. xlvi. 38, 51 ; Cic. ad Fam. x. 30, 34 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 77 ; Dion Cass. liii. 25.) Silanus had two sisters, one married to M. Lepidus, the triumvir, and the other to C. Cassius, one of Caesar's murderers. [Junia, Nos. 2 and 3.] 7. C.Junius C. p. Silanus, consul b. c. 19 with C. Furnius, may perhaps have been a cousin of No. 6. (Dion Cass. liv. 18.) 8. M.Junius M.F. SiL.mus, sonof No.6,con8ul under Tiberius, a. d. 19, with L. Norbanus Balbus.