Marcus Caeionius Silvanus was a

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of the second century AD.

Life

He was the ordinary consul of 156 with Gaius Serius Augurinus as his colleague. However, nothing more is presently known about his career. Based on his ''

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'' Silvanus,

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roma ...

suggested that he was descended from the Plautii, specifically that his father was a son of Lucius Ceionius Commodus, consul 106, and Plautia, who died before he was old enough to be awarded the consulate. "Hence an unattested and short lived brother of L. Caesar -- and his son, M. Ceionius Silvanus, was therefore a first cousin of L. Verus."

Proposed descendants

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has proposed that Silvanus was an ancestor of Caeionius Varus (225 or 230 – after 285),

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in 284 and 295, married to (Rufia C.f. Procula) (b. 235) - perhaps daughter of Caius Rufius C.f. Proculus (200 or 205 – after 236), ''Cur. Oper.'' in 236, and wife (Publilia) (b. 220), sister of (Caius Rufius Festus) (b. 235 or 240), (''c. v.'' of the Volsinii) and maternal niece of (Lucius Publilius) (b. 225), in turn perhaps the father of Lucius Publilius Volusianus,

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at the end of the 3rd century. His son and daughter in law were perhaps the parents of (Marcus) Caeionius Proculus,

in 289, of C. Nummia Caeionia Umbria Rufia Albina, of Caeionia Marina (b. 260), married to Crepereius Amantius, and of Caius Caeionius Rufius Volusianus,

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in February 311 and in March 314, etc.Christian Settipani, ''Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l’époque impériale: mythe et réalité, Prosopographica et Genealogica'', vol. 2 (Linacre College, Oxford, 2000), Addenda et Corrigenda

References

Silvanus, Marcus 2nd-century Roman consuls Year of death unknown {{AncientRome-politician-stub