What is "gallio"

Usage examples of "gallio".

Since his brother now virtually ruled Rome, Gallio had never been more popular, and he was not at all surprised when Aulus detained him one day as they were leaving the Senate chamber, probably to seek a favor.

Senator Lucius Junius Gallio, the brother of our esteemed Annaeus Seneca.

At that point, Sabinus called Gallio as witness, and he repeated his testimony, adding, however, that Paul had not seemed a seditious sort, and that his opponents had caused the confrontation.

Perhaps Senator Gallio here was the wisest of all: he saw that it was merely a religious dispute, and so he dismissed the case.

Seneca did, in fact, serve frequently as assessor, and it was his brother Gallio who judged Paul in Corinth.

Paul certainly had already done this before Sergius Paulus, Gallio, Felix, Festus, Publius, Nero, and others.

Accordingly he sought an audience of Gallio, the matter being obviously for the representative of the Imperial government, rather than for the head of the Corinthian municipality.

Still the matter was not one which Gallio felt himself justified in ignoring.

Aristagoras went a step further, and sought to have Eubulus arrested, Gallio met the request with a distinct refusal.

As he turned to leave the audience chamber, Gallio regarded him with a scornful smile.

I suppose that if one was strong-minded and resolute one would behave like Gallio, who drove the disputants from his judgment-seat.

He is a mild and decent man, who, unlike his brothers Seneca and Gallio, is totally without ambition.

Junius Gallio, became Consul and, thirteen years ago, Proconsul in Achaea.

The character best fitted for the post would be such an one as Gallio, the tranquil cynic of Antioch.

And yet how many are there amongst us like unto Gallio, that care not what becomes of the cause of God, so they may have peace and quiet?