Publius Galerius Trachalus

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Publius Galerius Trachalus was a

senator, who was active during the middle of the first century AD. He was consul for the year 68 as the colleague of Silius Italicus[1] and a noted Roman orator praised by Quintilian.[2][3]

Hailing from

Ariminum, Trachalus is thought to possibly be a descendant of the equites Gaius Galerius, praefectus or governor of Egypt (AD 16–23).[4] He was also likely related to Galeria Fundana, the second wife of Otho.[5]

An inscription from Mediolanum (modern

Africa proconsularis for the term 78/79.[9]

References

  1. Classical Quarterly
    , 24 (1974), pp. 292, 311
  2. ^ Institutes 10.1.119
  3. ISBN 978-1-4443-3415-9
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  4. ISBN 3-476-01474-6
  5. ^ Gwyn Morgan, 69 A.D., the Year of Four Emperors (Oxford: University Press, 2006), p. 77
  6. ^ CIL V, 5812
  7. ^ Tacitus Histories I.90.2
  8. ^ Tacitus, Histories, II.60
  9. ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), p. 300
Political offices
Preceded byas Suffect consuls
Consul of the Roman Empire
68
with Silius Italicus
 Succeeded by
Nero V,
and ignotus
as Suffect consul
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