Marcus Junius Silanus (consul 25 BC)
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Marcus Junius D. f. M. n. Silanus was a
Biography
Silanus was a descendant of the noble Roman house of the
Silanus was possibly the same man who served as one of Julius Caesar's legates in 53 BC.[4][a]
He supported his brother-in-law Lepidus in 44 BC after Caesar's murder, accompanying Lepidus over the Alps. The following year, Lepidus sent him with a detachment of troops to join Marcus Antonius at Mutina,[6] but refused to accept responsibility for the help which Silanus gave.[7] After falling out of favor with the triumvirs, in 39 he fled to Sextus Pompeius.[8] He was able to return to Antonius's service under the terms of the Pact of Misenum.[9]
A Silanus later served under Antonius in
Before the Battle of Actium, Silanus went over to Octavianus.[14] The future emperor raised him to the Patriciate in 30 BC,[15] and they held the consulship together in 25.[16][17]
Marcus may have married a woman named Manlia from the
See also
Notes
- Magistrates of the Roman Republic, T.R.S. Broughton suggests that the consul of 25 BC might be distinguished from the legate of 53 BC.[5]
References
- ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 3
- ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
- ^ Anthon & Smith, pg. 812
- ^ Broughton, pg. 230
- ^ Anthon & Smith, pg. 812; Syme, pg. 178
- ^ Broughton, pg. 352
- ^ Syme, pg. 189
- ^ Broughton, Vol III, pg. 114
- ^ Broughton, pg. 415
- ^ Broughton, pgs. 359 & 411
- JSTOR 20187162.
- ^ Broughton, pg. 412
- ^ Syme, pg. 296
- ^ Syme, pg. 382
- ^ T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952).
- ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
- ^ Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (1968). The Journal of Roman Studies. Vol. 37–39. Kraus Reprint. p. 8.
- ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
Sources
- T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952).
- Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939.
- Anthon, Charles & Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (1860).