Messalla Vipstanus gallus

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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 .