Gallio
is said to be mentioned in an ancient MS. as the author of the Rhetorica ad Herennium, which is printed among Cicero's works. But the statement is very uncertain; besides which M. Gallio is otherwise altogether unknown. Further Information
J. C. Scaliger, de Re Poet. 3.31, 34; Burmann, in the preface to his edition of the Rhet. ad Herenn. p. xxx. [L.S]
a Roman rhetorician, and a contemporary and friend of M. Annaeus Seneca, the rhetorician, whose son he adopted. He was a senator; and on one occasion he proposed in the senate that the praetorians, after the expiration of their time of service, should receive a distinction otherwise reserved for equites, namely, the right of sitting in the quatuordecim ordines in the theatre. Tiberius, who suspected that this was done merely to win the faivour of the soldiers, began to fear him : he first removed him from the senate, and afterwards sent him into exile. Gallio accordingly went to Lesbos; but Tiberius, grudging him the quiet and ease which he was likely to enjoy there, had him conveyed back to Rome, where he was kept in custody in the house of a magistrate. (Tac. Ann. vi. 3; D. C. 58.18.) In his early years he had been a friend of Ovid (Ov. Pont. 4.11), and one one occasion he had defended Bathyllus, one of the favourites of Maecenas. (Senec. Controv. 1.2, 5; Quint. Inst. 9.2.91.) According to Dio Cassius (62.25), he was put to death by the command of Nero. Works
As an orator, he was probably not above the ordinary declaimers of the time, at least the author of the dialogue De Oratoribus (100.36; comp. Sidon. Apollin. 1.5.10) speaks of him with considerable contempt. Besides his declamations, such as the speech for Bathyllus, we know that he published a work on rhetoric, which, however, is lost. (Quint. Inst. 3.1.21; Hieronym. Praefat. lib. viii. in Esaiam.) Possibly identical with the Gallio in the Acts
Whether he is the same Gallio who is mentioned in the Acts (8.12) as proconsul of Achaia is uncertain. [L.S]
a son of the rhetorician M. Annaeus Seneca, and an elder brother of the philosopher Seneca. His original name was M. Annaeus Norattus, but he was adopted by the rhetorician Junius Gallio, whereupon he changed his name into L. Junius Annaeus (or Annaeanus) Gallio. Dio Cassius (60.35) mentions a witty but bitter joke of his, which he made in reference to the persons that were put to death in the reign of Claudius. His brother's death intimidated him so much, that he implored the mercy of Nero (Tac. Ann. 15.73); but according to Hieronymus the chronicle of Eusebius, who calls him a celebrated rhetorician, he put an end to himself in A. D. 65. He is mentioned by his brother in the preface to the fourth book of the Quaestiones Naturales, and the work de Vita Beata is addressed to him. [L.S]
(1) A Roman rhetorician, the friend of the elder Seneca, whose son he adopted. He was put to death by Nero.
(2) The son of the elder Seneca, adopted by the preceding.