Messalla Vipstanus gallus
Messalla Vipstanus Gallus was a Roman politician and senator of the 1st century AD.
Vipstanus Gallus was a son of Marcus Vipstanus Gallus, who had been a suffect consul in the year 18 . In 46 Vipstanus Gallus was extraordinary magistrate in Cales in Campania . Two years later, in 48, Gallus held the suffect consulate together with Lucius Vitellius , the brother of the future emperor Vitellius . After that - maybe 52/53? - he was legate of the province of Pannonia and in the year 59/60 proconsul of the province of Asia .
His brother was Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola .
literature
- Annalisa Tortoriello: I fasti consolari degli anni di Claudio . Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma 2004, pp. 591f., ISBN 88-218-0917-X .
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SURNAME | Vipstanus gallus, Messalla |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallus, Messalla Vipstanus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman suffect consul 48 |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 46 |
DATE OF DEATH | after 60 |