As was standard practice, as revealed by inscriptions, the Romans matched their deities with local Silurian ones, and the local deity Ocelus was identified with Mars, the Roman god of war.
Gaius is an inheritant of royal blood through his Celtic mother of a southern tribe, the Silures.
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The fort was key to the conquest of the Silures, a tribe very resistant to the imposition of Roman rule in Roman Wales, but in AD 66, the legion was transferred to Viroconium Cornoviorum (at Wroxeter) and their base in Wales was largely abandoned.
He subdued the Silures and other tribes of Wales hostile to Roman invasion, establishing a new base at Caerleon or Isca Augusta for Legio II Augusta and a network of smaller forts fifteen to twenty kilometres apart for his auxiliary units.
In 2008, he joined the band The Silures, which was founded by Vitalic and Linda Lamb in 2002.
Silures Bobo-Dioulasso was a Burkinabé football club based in Bobo-Dioulasso.