Servius Sulpicius Galba (Praetor 54 BC)

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Servius Sulpicius Galba (* probably around 93 BC; † after 43 BC) was a politician and general of the late Roman Republic from the patrician gens of Sulpicii .

The descendant of the consul of the same name in 144 BC. BC probably served from 62 to 60 BC As a legacy under the governor Gaius Pomptinus in the province of Gallia Narbonensis and fought against the Allobroger . He performed the same function from 58 to 56 BC. Under Pomptinus' successor Gaius Iulius Caesar in the first years of the Gallic War , where he suffered heavy losses against the Veragrer at Octodurum (today Martigny ) . 54 BC BC he held the praetor and helped his old commander Pomptinus to a triumph . 50 BC He applied in vain for the consulate for the following year.

In the civil war of 49 BC On the outbreak of BC, Galba seems to have continued to serve Caesar, as he expected to receive a consulate, which the dictator refused to do. He then joined the conspiracy against Caesar. In 43 BC After the assassination of Caesar, he served as a legate in the army of the Senate , which fought against Caesar's followers Marcus Antonius in front of Mutina (now Modena ) in northern Italy . Galba commanded the battle-tested Mars Legion and was involved with it in the Battle of Forum Gallorum , in which Antonius on April 14 or 15, 43 BC. Chr. Suffered a defeat. A letter from Galba in which he describes this battle is preserved in the correspondence of Marcus Tullius Cicero .

After the temporary victory of the Senate Party, Galba went to Rome as the envoy of Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus . At the end of the year he was condemned by Octavian, later Augustus , in the lex Pedia as one of the murderers of Caesar. Nothing is known about his further fate.

Since 50 BC at the latest Until his death, Sulpicius Galba was Augur .

His son Gaius also reached the praetur and was known as a historian, his grandson was a suffect consul 5 BC. His son Galba became Roman emperor for a few months in 68/69 AD.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Suetonius , Galba 3,2 a grandson, probably a great grandson.
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio 37.48 .
  3. ↑ Cassius Dio 39,65,2 .
  4. ^ A b Suetonius, Galba 3.2.
  5. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 10, 30 .
  6. ↑ Cicero, ad familiares 11, 18, 1 .
personal data
SURNAME Sulpicius Galba, Servius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galba, Servius Sulpicius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician and general of the late Roman Republic
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: around 93 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 43 BC Chr.