Gaius Junius Silanus

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Gaius Junius Silanus was a

Senator active during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. He acceded to the rank of Roman consul in 10 AD as the colleague of Publius Cornelius Dolabella.[1] For the term 20/21 the sortition selected him to be proconsul of Asia.[2] However, upon his return to Rome in 22 he was accused of malversation (misconduct).[3] To this alleged crime his accusers in the senate added the charges of treason (majestas) and sacrilege to the divinity of Augustus.[4]

Gyarus; but Tiberius changed the place of his exile to the less inhospitable island of Cynthus where his sister Torquata had begged might be his place of punishment.[6]

He was either the father or a brother of

Marcus Junius Silanus, consul suffectus in 15.[7][8]

Notes

  1. ^ Degrassi, Attilio (1952). I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo. Rome: Roma Edizioni di Storia e letteratura. p. 7.
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  3. ^ Smith, William (2005). A Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library. p. 821.
  4. ^ Tacitus, Annales 3.66
  5. ^ Tacitus, Annales 3.67
  6. ^ Tacitus, Annales 3.69
  7. ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2. The son of C. Silanus C.f., the criminal proconsul, is C. Appius Junius Silanus (cos. 28),... the second brother... Decimus who, involved in the disgrace of the younger Julia... the third brother M. Silanus C.f. He held the fasces in 15, as consul suffect,... (Limited Preview of this page in Google Books
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Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Papius Mutilus, and
Quintus Poppaeus Secundus
as Suffect consuls
Succeeded byas Suffect consuls