Silus
a Roman cognomen, properly signified a person whose nose turned up (Festus, s.v. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1.29). The names Silo, Silius, and Silanus appear to be all connected with this name.
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.