Marcus Junius Silanus (Consul 25 BC)

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Marcus Junius Silanus (* before 68 BC; † ~ 11 BC) was a Roman politician and 25 BC Chr. Consul .

Life

Marcus Junius Silanus was probably a son of the praetor of the same name in 77 BC. And grandson of the mint master Decimus Junius Silanus . He was the grandfather of Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus , consul of AD 19.

The ancient historian Friedrich Münzer does not believe that Silanus is identical with Caesar's legate of the same name , who lived in 53 BC. A military force was recruited as a revolt threatened in Gaul . On the other hand, Silanus can be identified with the military tribune of the same name belonging to the governor of the province of Gallia Narbonensis and later triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , who died during the Mutine War around March 43 BC. BC moved on behalf of his superior with an army contingent from Gaul to the city ​​of Mutina , which was besieged by Marcus Antonius . Lepidus wanted to be as neutral as possible in the war and had therefore formulated his task for Silanus so vaguely that the latter did not know exactly which of the two warring parties to support. He decided to join forces with Antonius and was, after Antony in April 43 BC. Was beaten, accused by Lepidus of acting arbitrarily. Later, Silanus switched to the side of Sextus Pompeius in Sicily - perhaps because of Lepidus' behavior . When this in the summer of 39 BC BC reached an understanding with the Triumvirs through the Treaty of Misenum , which included a pardon for all those who defected to Pompey (with the exception of the murderers of Caesar ), Silanus was able to return to Italy.

Silanus rejoined Antonius. He was born before 34 BC. Co -opted into the respected college of augurs and officiated in 34 or 33 BC. BC in Greece as a quaestor with a proconsular empire, which is evidenced by coins of Antonius, which bear the legend M. Silanus aug (ur) q (uaestor) pro co (n) s (ule) on the reverse . 32-31 BC He took part in the military conflict of the triumvirs for sole rule in the Roman Empire . As Antony's situation deteriorated further and further in the course of the war, Silanus left, allegedly because he had incited the mockery of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra , like other high-ranking officers of Antony in time before the decisive battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC. ) to Octavian (later Augustus ).

When Octavian became emperor and in 25 BC For the ninth time BC served as consul, he appointed Silanus as his fellow consul. Silanus is probably in the senate resolution for the secular celebration of the year 17 BC. Chr. Named as the first documentary witness. His exact date of death is unknown. In the Fasti sacerdoti he and his younger brother Lucius appear for the last time in 11 BC. As augurs.

literature

credentials

  1. ↑ PIR² part 4, vol. 3 stemma p. 351.
  2. ↑ Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 6, 1, 1; on this Friedrich Münzer : Junius 171). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Col. 1095.
  3. ^ So Friedrich Münzer: Iunius 172). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 1095 .; for Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton ( The Magistrates of the Roman Republic , vol. 3, p. 115), however, the identification of the Silanus treated here with the military tribune of the same name of Lepidus is not certain.
  4. ↑ Cassius Dio 46, 38, 6f .; 46, 50, 3; 46, 51, 1; see. Cicero , Epistulae ad familiares 10, 30, 1.
  5. ^ Velleius Paterculus 2, 77, 3.
  6. ^ Friedrich Münzer: Iunius 172). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 1096.
  7. ↑ Plutarch , Antonius 59, 6.
  8. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I² p. 58; Cassius Dio 53, 25, 3; among others
  9. ↑ CIL 6, 877 .
  10. ↑ Jörg Rüpke: Fasti sacerdotum: the members of the priesthoods and the sacred functional staff of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults in the city of Rome from 300 BC. Chr. To AD 499 , Volume 1; P. 156
personal data
SURNAME Junius Silanus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silanus, Marcus Junius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul 25 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 68 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 17 BC Chr.