Dulius Silanus

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A centurion's altar of consecration from 189, when the inscribed Dulius Silanus and Servilius Silanus ( duobus Silanis ) exercised the ordinary consulate

Dulius Silanus († 190/192) was a Roman politician and senator at the end of the 2nd century AD.

The career of Silanus is completely unknown. Silanus was in 189, together with Quintus Servilius Silanus, ordinary consul . The consulate is also referred to in the literature as duobus Silanis . He is only mentioned in the proscription list of the Historia Augusta . There it says that Silanus was executed in 190/192 on the orders of the Emperor Commodus .

The gentile noun Dulius is certainly incorrect. Since Barbieri, the name has been added to Decimus Iulius Silanus , but this is unlikely because the first names are usually missing in the Vita Commodi and no other Iulius with the cognomen Silanus is known from the large families of the empire.

Remarks

  1. ↑ CIL 13, 8640
  2. ↑ Historia Augusta, Commodus 7.5.
  3. ↑ Guido Barbieri in Atilio Degrassi in I fasti consolari dell 'impero Romano , Rome 1952, p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Dulius Silanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman consul 189
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 190 or 192