Gaius Junius Silanus was a Roman Senator active during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius.
He acceded to the rank of Roman consul in 10 AD as the colleague of Publius Cornelius Dolabella.
[3] To this alleged crime his accusers in the senate added the charges of treason (majestas) and sacrilege to the divinity of Augustus.
Silanus, deserted by his friends and without experience in pleading, abandoned his defence.
[5] It was proposed to outlaw and banish him to the island of Gyarus; but Tiberius changed the place of his exile to the less inhospitable island of Cynthus where his sister Torquata had begged might be his place of punishment.