Silia Gens
plebeian, did not attain much importance till quite the latter end of the republic, although a person of this name is mentioned as early as B. C. 409. The first member of the gens who obtained the consulship was P. Silius Nerva, in B. C. 20. The different cognomens of the Silii are given below in alphabetical order. Nerva is the only cognomen that occurs on coins of the gens.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.