Decimus Junius Silanus (Consul 62 BC)

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Decimus Junius Silanus was a consul of the Roman Republic. He was possibly the son of Marcus Junius Silanus, the consul in 109 BC. He was the step-father of Marcus Junius Brutus because he married his mother, Servilia.

[edit] 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 bv Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. At first he spoke in favor of death for the conspirators, but then he spoke in favor of merely imprisoning them until Catiline had been conquered.

He was consul in 62 with Lucius Licinius Murena. They proposed the lex Licinia Junia, which enacted that a rogatio, a discussionary meeting, must be promulgated three nundinae, or martket-intervals, before the people voted on it. It also confirmed the lex Caecilia Didia.

[edit] 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.
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, ii.35.
  • Plutarch, Cicero, 20, 21; Cato Minor, 22.
  • Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, 50.
  • Suetonius, Caesar, 14.

[edit] Family tree

  • (1)=1st husband/wife
  • (2)=2nd husband/wife
  • 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, adoptive son
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brutus (1)
 
Servilia Caepionis
 
Decimus Junius Silanus (2)
 
 
another Servilia
 
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)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Descendent of Pompey the Great 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 (1867).

Preceded by
Gaius Antonius Hybrida and Marcus Tullius Cicero
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Licinius Murena
62 BC
Succeeded by
Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus