A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a Vestal virgin, and the sister of C. Junius Silanus, interceded on behalf of her brother, who was condemned of treason in A. D. 22, and obtained from Tiberius a commutation of his punishment. Her name occurs in inscriptions. (Tac. Ann. 3.70, with the note of Lipsius; Spon, Miscell. p. 150.) [SILANUS, No. 10.]

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