Publius Galerius Trachalus

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Publius Galerius Trachalus was an Imperial Roman senator and full consul in 68.

Publius Galerius Trachalus was probably a descendant of the knight Gaius Galerius , who was probably Praefectus Aegypti between 16 and 31 , and came from Ariminum .

In 68 Trachalus was a full consul together with Silius Italicus . In the four-emperor year 69 he served Emperor Otho as a domestic policy advisor and possibly also as a speechwriter. He was also famous as a speaker in the Senate. Later in 69, his relative Galeria Fundana saved him from being punished by her husband, the new Emperor Vitellius .

He was governor of Africa , probably around the year 80.

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Individual evidence

  1. Tacitus , Historien 1,90,2.
  2. Quintilian , Institutio oratoria 12,5,5.
  3. Tacitus, Histories 2,60,2.
  4. Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 45.