Decius Silanus

Family: Roman · Role: consul elect · First appears: Julius Caesar 14

Life events

• Decius Silanus softened Julius Caesar’s proposal through a lenient interpretation.(Julius Caesar 14)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “Decius Silanus, consul elect, did not hesitate to qualify his proposal, it not being very honourable to change it, by a lenient interpretation”

Julius Caesar 14

• siblings with Cicero “Decius Silanus, consul elect, did not hesitate to qualify his proposal, it not being very honourable to change it, by a lenient interpretation; as if it had been understood in a harsher sense than he intended, and Caesar would certainly have carried his point, having brought over to his side a great number of the senators, among whom was Cicero, the consul’s brother”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.