Cornelius Gallus

Family: Roman · Role: prefect of Egypt · First appears: Augustus 66

Life events

• Augustus made Cornelius Gallus prefect of Egypt.(Augustus 66 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Augustus
  • “Cornelius Gallus, whom he made prefect of Egypt”
• Augustus forbade Cornelius Gallus from his house and from living in any province.(Augustus 66)
  • With: Augustus
  • “he forbad his house, and his living in any of the provinces.”
• Cornelius Gallus killed himself after being denounced and sentenced by the senate.(Augustus 66)
  • “Gallus, being denounced by his accusers, and sentenced by the senate, was driven to the desperate extremity of laying violent hands upon himself”
• Quintus Caecilius joined Cornelius Gallus and lived with him intimately.(Grammarians 16)
  • With: Quintus Caecilius
  • “he betook himself to Cornelius Gallus, and lived with him on terms of the greatest intimacy”
• Cornelius Gallus was condemned and died.(Grammarians 16)
  • “Then, after the condemnation and death of Gallus”

Augustus 66

• friends with Augustus “For amongst all his friends, we scarcely find any who fell into disgrace with him, except Salvidienus Rufus, whom he raised to the consulship, and Cornelius Gallus, whom he made prefect of Egypt; both of them men of the lowest extraction.”
• employer: Augustus “For amongst all his friends, we scarcely find any who fell into disgrace with him, except Salvidienus Rufus, whom he raised to the consulship, and Cornelius Gallus, whom he made prefect of Egypt; both of them men of the lowest extraction.”

Grammarians 16

• friends with Quintus Caecilius “he betook himself to Cornelius Gallus, and lived with him on terms of the greatest intimacy”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.