Silanus, Junius
2. D. Junius Silanus, was commissioned by the senate about B. C. 146, in consequence of his knowledge of the Punic language, to translate into Latin the twenty-eight books of Mago on Agriculture. (Plin. Nat. 18.3. s. 5.)
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