Caius Silius

Also known as: Silius · Family: Roman army · Role: Lieutenant-General · First appears: Annals I (10)

Life events

• The German legions raised a large-scale insurrection against their commanders.(Annals I (10) · 📍 Germany)
  • With: Aulus Caecina Germanicus
  • “the legions in Germany raised an insurrection, with greater numbers, and thence with more fury”
• The mutinous soldiers abolished their officers’ authority and assumed command themselves.(Annals I (10))
  • With: Aulus Caecina Germanicus
  • “After this no further authority remained to the Tribunes, none to the Camp-Marshals.”
• Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius received triumphal honors.(Annals I (20))
  • With: Aulus Caecina Lucius Apronius
  • “The ornaments of triumph were this year decreed to Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius”
• Varro yielded command of the war to the more vigorous Caius Silius.(Annals III (8))
  • With: Varro
  • “At length Varro, old and infirm, yielded to the superior vigour of Silius.”
• Caius Silius's legions routed Sacrovir's army and destroyed its iron-armoured troops.(Annals III (8))
  • With: Sacrovir
  • “Instantly the horse surrounded the foe; the foot attacked their front, and the wings were presently routed”

Annals I (10)

• employer: Germanicus “Upon the Rhine were two armies; that called the higher, commanded by Caius Silius, Lieutenant-General; the lower, by Aulus Caecina: the command in chief rested in Germanicus, then busy collecting the tribute in Gaul.”

Annals I (20)

• employer: Germanicus “The ornaments of triumph were this year decreed to Aulus Caecina, Lucius Apronius, and Caius Silius, for their services under Germanicus.”

Annals II (4)

• employer: Germanicus “he commanded Caius Silius, with thirty thousand foot and three thousand horse, to march against the Cattans;”

Annals III (8)

• rivals with Varro “they had likewise leisure to increase from the contention of the two Roman generals; a contention for some time undecided, while each demanded the command in that war. At length Varro, old and infirm, yielded to the superior vigour of Silius.”
• enemies with Sacrovir “Instantly the horse surrounded the foe; the foot attacked their front, and the wings were presently routed”
• enemies with Julius Sacrovir “Twelve miles from Augustodunum, Sacrovir appeared with his forces upon the plains: in the front he had placed the iron troop; his cohorts in the wings; the half-armed in the rear; he himself, upon a fine horse, attended by the other chiefs, addressed himself to them from rank to rank;”

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