Decimus Junius Silanus (consul)

Decimus Junius Silanus (107 – after 62 BC) was a consul of the Roman Republic.

He may have been the son of Marcus Junius Silanus, consul in 109 BC.

Born in 107 BC,[1] Decimus Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus was the son of a Marcus Junius Silanus, presumably Decimus had an elder brother named Marcus, but he might have died young.

He was successful the following year, and so in consequence of his being consul designatus was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators.

At first he spoke in favor of "the supreme penalty" for the conspirators, but when Julius Caesar suggested life imprisonment, Silanus insisted that was what he had really meant.