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Decimus Junius Silanus

Consul in 62 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 70 BCE
    (aged 37)
    Aedile

    Broughton: The latest probable date, since Silanus held the office after Hortensius (in75; Cic.), and was a candidate for the consulship of 64 (a).

    Sources (1)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Murena (cos. 62) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Calpurnius Piso (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Praetor) , 67 BCE (Consul)

    C. Marcius Figulus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Papirius Carbo (pr. 62) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Quaestor) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 67 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: A possible candidate for the consulship of 64 (a).

    Sources (1)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Murena (cos. 62) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Calpurnius Piso (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Praetor) , 67 BCE (Consul)

    C. Marcius Figulus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Papirius Carbo (pr. 62) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Quaestor) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 62 BCE
    (aged 45)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Licinius Murena (cos. 62)

    Broughton: On the election of Silanus, and his part as Consul Designate in the debate in the Senate on the Catilinarian conspirators (a). Murena was prosecuted for bribery in his election, and defended successfully by Cicero (b). He voted to condemn the conspirators (c), and as Consul protected Cato during the disturbances at the beginning of the year (d). The two Consuls carried a law requiring copies of all proposed legislation to be deposited in the treasury (e).

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.910, 911, 2663b; Cic. Flacc. 30; Fast. Amit., Degrassi 170f.; Dio 37, Index, and 39.1; Eutrop. 6.16; Chr. 354 (Silano et Murena); Fast. Hyd. (Silana et Murena); Chr. Pasc. (#); Cassiod. See Degrassi 131, 490f.
      • (a) Cic. Cat. 4.7 and 11; Att. 12.21.1; Phil. 2.12; Sall. Cat. 50.4; 51.16; Plut. Cic. 14.6; 19.1; 20.3; 21.3; Cat. Min. 21.2; 22-23; App. BC 2.5-6; cf. Plut. Caes. 8.1; Dio 37.36; Schol. Gron. 287 Stangl
      • (b) Cic. Mur., passim; Flacc. 98; Fin. 4.74; Quintil. Inst. Or. 4.1.75; 6.1.35; 11.1.69; Plin. Epist. 1.20.7; Plut. Cic. 14.6; 35.3; Cat. Min. 21.3-6; Inim. Util. 9
      • (c) Cic. Dom. 134; Att. 12.21.1
      • (d) Plut. Cat. Min. 28.2-3, cf. 21.6; see Tribunes of the Plebs
      • (e) Cic. Att. 2.9.1; 4.16.5; Sest. 135; Vat. 33; Phil. 5.8; Leg. 3.11 and 46; Suet. Iul. 28.3; ,Schol. Bob. 140 Stangl
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Murena (cos. 62) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 62 BCE (Consul)

    C. Calpurnius Piso (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Praetor) , 67 BCE (Consul)

    C. Marcius Figulus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Papirius Carbo (pr. 62) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 67 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Vergilius Balbus (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 70 BCE (Quaestor) , 62 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.