Nero's successor

Usage examples of galba.

Yet Galba Brassidias forgave his own impatience as he forgave his own ambition.

As usual it was frigid on the parapet, his breath fogging, and yet Galba felt no cold.

Word of a pirate raid by a band of Scotti, barbarians from the isle of Eiru, had sent Galba and two hundred men and horses on a near-killing pace through a long day and longer night, coming at dawn to the gray Hibernian Sea.

There seemed to be two leaders of the Scotti war party, Galba saw: a redhead to the left, with drawn sword and restless manner, and a great hairy blond lout of a pirate on the right, lumbering in front of his men with shouldered ax.

As the barbarians ran they looked back at their seemingly wary pursuers and jeered, but Galba held his men in careful check.

None ever ignored Galba Brassidias for long, and someday this carrot-colored Hibernian would learn that too.

Odo became houseboy to the villa of Lucius Falco, and Galba Brassidias, forty rings now jangling from the waist chain of his armor, burst from the base of the watchtower to receive his reward from Rome.

The slave retreated to an alcove, and Galba spent the night on the floor.

The wedding schedule made this impossible, so Galba told his men to meet us at the grounds, giving his soldiers a brief chance to mingle with the charioteers and see the exotic animals.

This man Galba is beginning to sound like the only one with common sense!

Even as she said it, she realized how difficult it was to picture Galba as a child.

If she could understand Galba, perhaps she could understand Britannia.

Quintus and his neighbor Glidas, a transplanted Gaul with dealings in both provinces, invited Clodius and Galba to join them on the dining couches.

He looked at her again and then dropped back to ride, like Galba, alone.

Far more men, in fact, than Galba had left with, pounding hard to save her!