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Gaius Cestius Gallus ( d. 67 AD ) was the son of a consul in ancient Rome and himself a suffect consul in 42.
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Messalla is also recorded in an inscription as being one of the three friends of Gaius Cestius responsible for erecting statues that once stood at the site of the famous Pyramid of Cestius which is located close to the Porta San Paolo in Rome.
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.
The pyramid was built about 18 BC – 12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations in Rome, the Septemviri Epulonum.
: Gaius Cestius, son of Lucius, of the gens Pobilia, member of the College of Epulones, praetor, tribune of the plebs, septemvir of the Epulones
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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.
* Gaius Asinius Gallus, widower of Vipsania Agrippina and alleged lover of Agrippina the elder ( starvation )
* 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.
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.
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.
* Gaius Cassius, tribunus militum in 168 BC, entrusted by the praetor Lucius Anicius Gallus with the custody of the Illyrian king Gentius.
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* Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician, younger brother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who, like him, will pursue a popular political agenda that ultimately ends in his death ( d. 121 BC )
* Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician who will be elected consul seven times ; he will also introduce major reforms to the Roman army, authorising recruitment of landless citizens and reorganising the structure of the legions ( d. 86 BC )
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( Latin: ; b. abt 163 BC-162 BC d. 133 BC ) was a Roman Populares politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus.
* Marcus Livius Drusus ( censor ) ( d. 108 BC ), son of Gaius, tribune 121 BC with Gaius Gracchus, consul 112 BC, censor 109 BC, married Cornelia
* Gaius Julius Caesar ( proconsul of Asia, 90s BC ) ( d. 85 BC ), great-grandson of Sextus Julius Caesar
In 48, Messalina, was executed on the orders of Claudius due to Messalina's mock marriage with her lover Gaius Silius which later became a foiled political coup d ' etat.
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