Marcus Silanus

Family: Roman Senate · Role: senator · First appears: Annals III (10)

Life events

• Caligula withdrew Africa’s legion from Marcus Silanus’s command and assigned it to a legate.(Histories IV.47-50 · 📍 Africa)
  • With: Caligula
  • “Caligula, who was restless by nature and harboured suspicions of the then pro-consul, Marcus Silanus, withdrew the legion from his command”
• Caligula ordered Julius Graecinus to accuse Marcus Silanus and killed him for refusing.(Agricola (1))
  • With: Caligula Julius Graecinus
  • “By these his virtues, he earned the wrath of Caligula. For, he was by him ordered to accuse Marcus Silanus, and put to death for refusing.”

Annals III (10)

• with Tiberius (Proposed an honorific change benefiting the two princes.) “However, they could devise nothing to decree, but ”
• with Drusus (Tiberius's son) (Proposed an honorific change benefiting the two princes.) “However, they could devise nothing to decree, but ”

Annals VI (3)

• child: Claudia “About the same time, Claudia, daughter to Marcus Silanus, was given in marriage to Caligula”

Histories IV.47-50

• enemies with Caligula (Caligula's suspicions and actions produced friction and quarrels with Marcus Silanus.) “Caligula, who was restless by nature and harboured suspicions of the then pro-consul, Marcus Silanus, withdrew the legion from his command and put it under a legate whom he sent out for the purpose. As each had an equal amount of patronage and their functions overlapped, Caligula thus caused a state of friction which was further aggravated by regrettable quarrels.”

Agricola (1)

• enemies with Caligula “For, he was by him ordered to accuse Marcus Silanus, and put to death for refusing.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.