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GALLIO, JUNIUS ANNAEUS (originally Lucius ANNAEUS NOVATUS) , son of the rhetorician L. Annaeus Seneca
Seneca
Cordova ) about the beginning of the Christian era. At Rome he was adopted by L. Junius Gallio , a rhetorician of some repute, from whom he took the name of Junius Gallio . His brother Seneca, who dedicated to him the treatises
Claudius
tenure of office (in 53) he dismissed the charge brought by the Jews against the apostle Paul (Acts xviii.). His behaviour on this occasion (" But Gallio cared for none of these things ") shows the impartial attitude of the Roman officials towards Christianity in its early days. He survived his brother Seneca, but was subsequently put to death by order of Nero (in 65) or committed suicide.Tacitus, Annals, xv. 73; Dio Cassius lx. 35, 1x11. 25; Sir W. M. Ramsay, St Paul the Traveller, pp. 257-261; art. in Hastings' Diet. of the Bible (H. Cowan). An interesting reconstruction is given by Anatole France in Sur la pierre blanche.End of Article: GALLIO, JUNIUS ANNAEUS (originally Lucius ANNAEUS NOVATUS) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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