- Decimus Junius Silanus (consul)
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Decimus Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus was a consul of the Roman Republic. He may have been the son of Marcus Junius Silanus, consul in 109 BC. He was the stepfather of Marcus Junius Brutus, having married Brutus' mother, Servilia.
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Political career
He was aedile in 70 BC, but he lost the election to be a consul of 63. He was successful the following year, and so in consequence of his being consul designatus was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. At first he spoke in favor of "the supreme penalty" for the conspirators, but when Julius Caesar suggested life imprisonment, Silanus insisted that that was what he had really meant. As such, it was left to Cato the Younger to force through the decision to actually execute them.
He was consul in 62 with Lucius Licinius Murena. They proposed the lex Junia Licinia, which enacted that a rogatio, a discussionary meeting, must be promulgated three nundinae, or market-intervals, before the people voted on it. It also confirmed the lex Caecilia Didia.[1]
See also
- Junia (gens)
Footnotes
- ^ Cicero, The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero, Note V p. 429. See also rogatio.
References
- Appian, Bellum Civilum, ii.5.
- Cicero, de Officiis, ii.16; ad Atticum, i.1, ii.9, iv.16, xii.21.7; in Catilinam, iv.4; pro Sestio, 64; in Vatinum, 14; Philippics, v.3.
- Cicero, The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero, Volume 1, Edition 2 1885 (Google Books)
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, ii.35.
- Plutarch, Cicero, 20, 21; Cato Minor, 22.
- Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, 50.
- Suetonius, Caesar, 14.
Family Tree
- (1)=1st spouse
- (2)=2nd spouse
- x=assassin of Caesar
Salonia (2) Cato the Elder Licinia (1) Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus Marcus Livius Drusus Marcus Porcius Cato (2) Livia Drusa Quintus Servilius Caepio the Younger (1) Marcus Livius Drusus Atilia (1) Cato the Younger Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, adopted son Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder (1) Servilia Caepionis Decimus Junius Silanus (2) Servilia the Younger Quintus Servilius Caepio Porcia Catonis Marcus Junius Brutus x Junia Prima Junia Tertia Gaius Cassius Longinus x Marcus Porcius Cato (II) Junia Secunda Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) Descendant of Pompey and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lepidus the Younger Manius Aemilius Lepidus Aemilia Lepida II This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
Preceded by
Gaius Antonius Hybrida and Marcus Tullius CiceroConsul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Licinius Murena
62 BCSucceeded by
Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi CalpurnianusCategories:- Roman Republican consuls
- Iunii
- 1st-century BC Romans
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