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* Gaius Asinius Gallus, widower of Vipsania Agrippina and alleged lover of Agrippina the elder ( starvation )
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Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.
In 26, Agrippina requested Tiberius to allow her to marry her brother-in-law, Roman Senator Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus.
Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.
In 40 BC, through the mediation of Gaius Asinius Pollio, Ahenobarbus became reconciled to Mark Antony, which greatly offended Octavianus.
He tried to enlist the support of Mark Antony, but his fellow tribunes Gaius Asinius Pollio and Lucius Trebellius Fides advised Antony not to support the measure.
The work was epitomized by the author himself, and later by Asinius Pollio of Tralles ( perhaps a freedman of the famous Gaius Asinius Pollio ).
Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.
Married to Quinctia, daughter of Lucius Quinctius, who was executed in 43 BC, Pollio is also notable as the father of Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, the second husband of Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus's partner, second-in-command and second son-in-law.
Gaius and Gallus
* Summer – Gaius Cornelius Gallus lands in Cyrene and occupied Paraetonium, Mark Antony stormed the city walls and blockades the harbour.
One literary tradition claims that Decius was betrayed by his successor Trebonianus Gallus, who was involved in a secret alliance with the Goths but this cannot be substantiated and was most likely a later invention since Gallus felt compelled to adopt Decius ' younger son, Gaius Valens Hostilianus, as joint emperor even though the latter was too young to rule in his own right.
Among those who perished were Gaius Asinius Gallus, a prominent senator and opponent of Tiberius who was linked to Agrippina's faction.
The greatest of this family, Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, was a successful general and statesman, as well as an orator and scholar much admired by Cicero.
* Gaius Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Gallus, a great scholar ; as consul in 166 BC, triumphed over the Ligures.
In 66, after a Zealot revolt had destroyed the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, the XII Fulminata, with vexillationes of IV Scythica and VI Ferrata, was sent to retaliate, but it was sent back by Gaius Cestius Gallus, legatus of Syria, when he saw that the legion was weak.
* Gaius Cassius, tribunus militum in 168 BC, entrusted by the praetor Lucius Anicius Gallus with the custody of the Illyrian king Gentius.
Gaius Cestius Gallus ( d. 67 AD ) was the son of a consul in ancient Rome and himself a suffect consul in 42.
Gaius and Vipsania
A formal adoption " in the family of the Caesars " among the offspring of Agrippa and Julia the Elder is however only recorded regarding Vipsania Julia's brothers Gaius — hence Gaius Caesar — and Lucius — hence Lucius Caesar.
Germanicus married Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippa's daughter by Julia and Tiberius's stepdaughter, and had by her one surviving son, Gaius " Caligula " (" Little Boots "), and a daughter, Julia Agrippina, whose second husband was Germanicus's brother by blood, Claudius ( she was his fourth wife ); Agrippina had already borne a son, Lucius, whom Claudius adopted under the name Nero in 40 ; Nero married Claudius's daughter Claudia Octavia in 53.
Agrippa and Julia's marriage resulted in five children: Gaius Caesar, Vipsania Julia ( also known as Julia the Younger ), Lucius Caesar, Vipsania Agrippina or Agrippina the Elder ( mother of Emperor Caligula ), and Agrippa Postumus ( a posthumous son ).
Shortly after their arrival, their first child Gaius was born, and in 19 BC, Julia gave birth to Vipsania Julia.
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