Publius Galerius Trachalus

Publius Galerius Trachalus was a Roman senator, who was active during the middle of the first century AD. He was consul for the year 68 as the colleague of Silius Italicus.[1] Trachalus was a noted Roman orator praised by Quintilian.[2][3]

Hailing from Ariminum, Trachalus was probably a descendant of the equites Gaius Galerius, Praefectus of Roman Egypt (AD 16-23).[4] He may have been the father-in-law of the emperor Vitellius.[5]

Trachalus served Otho as an advisor during the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69).[6] Despite his association with Otho, he survived the chaos of the civil wars, and was permitted to be governor of Africa proconsularis for the term 78/79.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Paul A. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", Classical Quarterly, 24 (1974), pp. 292, 311
  2. ↑ Institutes 10.1.119
  3. ↑ William Dominik; Jon Hall (11 January 2010). A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons. p. 511. ISBN 978-1-4443-3415-9.
  4. ↑ Werner Eck, "Galerius (4)", Brill's New Pauly, Volume 4 (Stuttgart:Metzler, 1998), Col. 758 ISBN 3-476-01474-6
  5. ↑ Tacitus Histories 2.60.2
  6. ↑ Tacitus Histories 1.90.2
  7. ↑ CIL V, 5812
Political offices
Preceded by
Appius Annius Gallus,
and Lucius Verulanus Severus
as Suffect consuls		 Consul of the Roman Empire
68
with Silius Italicus		 Succeeded by
Nero V,
and ignotus
as Suffect consul
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