Junius Gallio

Family: Roman Senate · Role: senator · First appears: Annals VI (1)

Annals VI (1)

• enemies with Tiberius (Tiberius punished and imprisoned Gallio.) “This reward, had the studied flattery of Gallio; who was instantly expelled the Senate, and then Italy: nay, it became a charge upon him, that his exile would be too easy, having for the place of it chosen Lesbos, an island noble and delightful; he was therefore haled back to Rome and confined a prisoner in the house of a Magistrate.”
• employer: Sejanus (Gallio is identified in the surrounding passage as the proposer of the project and as Sejanus's mercenary.) “a project started by a mercenary of Sejanus, to raise sedition and discord”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.