Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

IUNI1966 M. Iunius (170) Silanus

Relationships

grandson of
? D. Iunius (161) Silanus Manlianus (pr. 141) (Brennan 2000)
adopted son of
? M. Iunius (169) D. f. D. n. Silanus (cos. 109) (Zmeskal 2009)
father of
? M. Iunius (171) Silanus (leg. lieut. 53) (Zmeskal 2009)
? M. Iunius (172) M. f. D. n. Silanus (proq. 32) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Quaestor 84 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served under Licinius Murena in Asia Minor (I. V. Priene, 12 1, line 44). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Some provincial cistophori of Ephesus are dated to year 13 and bear on the reverse in Latin letters the name C. Atin(ius) C. f. (see F. S. Kleiner, The Dated Cistophori of Ephesus, ANSMusN 18, 1972, 17-32, esp. 29-30; and now G. Stumpf, C. Atinius C. f., Praetor in Asia, 122-121 v. Chr. auf einem Kistophor, ZPE 61, 1985, 186-190). The era, known from later cistophori, began in 134-133 B.C., more probably, as K. J. Rigsby has shown (Phoenix 33, 1972, 39-47), with the grant of freedom to Ephesus by the will of Attalus III than from the organization of the province of Asia, while the number 13 dates this issue of cistophori to 122-121 B.C. The name in Latin letters, on the analogy of the names on later cistophori, must be that of the Roman praetorian governor of that year. This date opens the way, as Stumpf has shown, to identifying him with both the C. (Atinius) Labeo (3) (see above and MRR 2.462) named in I. Priene 121, lines 15-22 and C. Atinius Labeo Macerio (10), Tr. pl. 131 or 130 (see above). It also suggests that the Piso mentioned in I. Priene 121 may be the consul of 112, who was praetor ca. 115, that Hypsaeus may be a son of the consul of 125 and so praetor in Asia before 100, while M. Iunius Silanus Murena (170, and see above), a Murena adopted by a Iunius Silanus, held a quaestorship at the latest in the early nineties. (Broughton MRR III)
    • The unknown honorand had been an envoy not only to these officials but to many cities and to the future Seleucus VI, before he became king in 95 (or else not recognizing him, Sumner). If the list is in chronological order these almost unknown officials must date from the late second or early first century (see MRR 2.462, 463, and 465; Magie, RRAM 1579), but if they were arranged on some other principle, such as rank, they may be dated later (see C. P. Jones, Chiron 4, 1974, 203, and note 133). This would make it possible to identify L. Piso with the praetor of 74 (MRR 2.102), and Hypsaeus perhaps with a legate of Sulla (2.465), and Silanus quaestor with the future praetor of 77 and proconsul of Asia in 76 (2.88, 94), but if they are governors of Asia, as Sumner holds, there is no place for them in the Asian Fasti of the 70s and 80s. Moreover, as Shackleton Bailey has shown, # is a strange expression for "Murena's quaestor." See Wiseman, LCM 1, 1976, 2, who, following Magie, RRAM 1126, note 43, reads # as in the inscription and interprets it as an adoptive cognomen; cf. Shackleton Bailey, Studies 118-119, who confuses the text on the stone and the emendation; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153. See also M. H. Crawford, in LCM 7, 1982, 124, who notes Wosnik's reading #, but prefers with Wiseman (above) to consider # as an adoptive cognomen and read # as on the stone. See now A. Keaveney, Klio 66, 1984, 120-121, for the attractive suggestion that Silanus Murena was quaestor with C. Cassius (10), proconsul in Asia in 89 (MRR 2.34 and 38, note 6), and himself the proconsul of 76. But see Addendum, p. 27, above. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proquaestor 83 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served, probably as a Proquaestor, under L. Licinius Murena in Asia (I. v. Priene 121, line 40, cf. p. 311). See below, on Licinius Murena. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proquaestor 82 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • See 84, Quaestors; and 83, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor before 76 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • See 76, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 751, footnote 361 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul 76 Asia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Asia (Plin. NH 2.100; 35.131, cf. 27; Le Bas and Waddington, 409, a decree of Mylasa). (Broughton MRR II)

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