Decimus Silānus

, a son of Titus Manlius Torquatus, accused of extortion in the management of the province of Macedonia. The father himself desired to hear the complaints laid against his son, and after he had spent two days in examining the charges of the Maced on i ans, he pronounced on the third day his son guilty of extortion, and unworthy to be called a citizen of Rome. He also banished him from his presence, and so struck was the son at the severity of his father, that he hanged himself on the following night. Livy , bk. 54 .— Cicero , de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 5 , ch. 8 .――Caius Junius, a consul under Tiberius, accused of extortion, and banished to the island of Cythere. Tacitus. ――Marcus, a lieutenant of Cæsar’s armies in Gaul.――The father-in-law of Caligula. Suet on i us , Caligula , ch. 22 .――A propretor in Spain, who routed the Cart hag in i an forces there, while Annibal was in Italy.――Turpilius, a lieutenant of Me tell us against Jugurtha. He was accused by Marius, though totally innocent, and condemned by the malice of his judges.――Torquatus, a man put to death by Nero.――Lucius, a man betrothed to Octavia the daughter of Claudius. Nero took Octavia away from him, and on the day of her nuptials, ♦ Silanus killed himself.――An augur in the army of the 10,000 Greeks, at their return from Cunaxa. ♦ ‘Salinus’ replaced with ‘Silanus’