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preceding article. This identity' had been pre: quest wds'granted. Gentius hoped' in'the mean-.
viously asserted by Bertrandus and Bach, but time to receive reinforcements from his brother
must be rejected by those who suppose that Varro Caravantius, but being disappointed, he himself
cites Aelius Gallus the jurist. (Maiansius, 1. c.; came. into the Roman camp, and surrendered in a
Neuber, Diejuristische Klassiker, p. 72-75; Zim- most humble manner. Anicius Gallus:now entered
mern, R. R. G. vol. i. ~ 81.) [J. T. G.] Scodra, where he first of all liberated the Roman
GALLUS, AE'LIUS, an ancient writer on prisoners, and sent Perperna, one of them, to
pharmacy, frequently quoted by Galen. He is Rome, with the intelligence of the complete reprobably the person sometimes called simply duction of Gentius. The whole campaign had not
Aelius (Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, lasted more than.thirty days. The. Roman senate,vol. xii. p. 730), sometimes Gallus (ibid. iii. 1, iv. decreed public thanksgivings for three days, and
8, vol. xii. p. 625, 784), and sometimes by both Anicius Gallus, on his return to Rome, celebrated
names (De Antid. ii. 1, vol. xiv. p. 114). In one a triumph over Gentius. In B. C. 155 he was one
passage (De Compos. lMedicam. sec. Gen. vi. 6, vol. of the ambassadors sent to call Prusias to account
xiii. p. 885) TdaLos AfALos is apparently a mis- for his conduct towards Attalus. (Liv. xliv. 17,
take for rdAxos AAleos. He is quoted by Ascle- 30, 31, xlv. 3, 26, 43;'Polyb. xxx. 13, xxxii. 21,
piades Pharmacion (apud Gal. De Compos. Medi- xxxiii. 6; Appian, Illyr. 9.)
cam. see. Loc. iv. 7. vol. xii. p. 730), and Andro- 2. L. ANICIUS, L. F. L. N. GALLUS, was consul
machus (apud. Gal. ibid. iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 625), in B. C. 160, the year in which the Adelphi of
and must have lived in the first century after Terence was brought out at the funeral games of
Christ, as he is said to have prepared an antidote M. Aemilius Paullus. (Didascal. ad Terent.Adelphl.;
for one of the emperors, which was also used by Fasti.) [L. S.]
Charmis, who lived in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54 GALLUS, A'NNIUS, a Roman general un-;
-68. (Gal. De Antid. ii. 1, vol. xiv. p. 114.) der the emperor Otho in his expedition against the
Haller (Bibliotl/. Medic. Pract. and Biblioth. Botan.) troops of Vitellius, in A. D. 69. He was sent out
supposes that there were two physicians of the by Otho to occupy the banks of'the Po; and when
name of Aelius Gallus; but this conjecture, in the Caecina laid siege to Placentia, Annius Gallus
writer's opinion, is not proved to be correct, nor hastened with a detachment of his army to the
does it seem to be required. relief of the place. When Otho. assembled his
- Besides this Gallus, there is another physician of council, to decide upon the mode of acting, Eallus
the name, M. GALLUS, whois sometimes said to have advised him to defer engaging in any decisive
had the cognomen ASCLEPIADES; but this appears battle. After the defeat of Otho's army in the
to be a mistake, as, in the only passage where he is battle. of Bedriacum, Annius Gallus pacified the
mentioned (Gal. De Compos. Medicam. see. Loc. viii. enraged Othonians. In the reign of Vespasian he
5, vol. xiii. p. 179), instead of rdkAou Maipcotv rvo was sent to Germany against Civilis. (Tac. Hist.
AamcXrL.daov, we. should probably read rdxAou i. 87, ii. 11, 23, 33, 44, iv. 68, v. 19; Plut. Otho,
MrIpcov rofu'AoKtAmrlaseeov, i. e. the follower of 5, 8, 13.) [L. S.]
Asclepiades of Bithynia. [W. A. G.] GALLUS, ANTI'PATER, a Roman historian,
GALLUS, ANI'CIUS. 1. L. ANICIUS, L. who lived about the time of the so-called Thirty
F. M. N. GALLUS, was praetor in B. C. 168, and Tyrants, and is censured by Trebellius Pollio"
conducted the war against Gentius, king of the (Claud. 5) for his servile flattery towards Aureo-'
Illyrians, who'had formed an alliance with Per- lus; but no further particulars are known, and his
seus of Macedonia against the Romans. L. Ani- work is lost, with the exception of a few words.
cius Gallus was stationed at Apollonia, and on: quoted by Trebellius Pollio (1. c.). [L. S.]
hearing what was going on in Illyricum, he re- GALLUS, C. AQUI'LLIUS, one of the most
solved to join App. Claudius, who was encamped distinguished of the early Roman jurists-those
on the banks of the river Genusus,. to co-operate "' veteres " —who flourished before the time of the
with him against the Illyrians; but as he was empire. Born of-an ancient and noble plebeian
soon after informed that Illyrian pirates had been family, he applied himself to the study of the law,
sent out to ravage the coasts of Dyrrhachium and under the auspices of Q. Mucius P. f. Scaevola, the
Apollonia, Anicius Gallus sailed out with the pontifex maximus, who was the greatest jurist of
Roman fleet stationed at Apollonia, took some of the day. Of all the pupils of Q.' Mucils, he atthe enemy's ships, and compelled the rest to return tained the greatest authority among'the people, to'
to Illyricum. He then *hastened to join App. whom, without regard to his own' ease, he was
Claudius, to relieve the Bassanitae, who were be- always accessible, and ready to give advice.'
sieged by Gentius. The news of the arrival of For deep and sound learning, perhaps some
Anicius Gallus frightened the king so much, that of his fellow-pupils, as Lucilius Balbus,'Papirius,
he raised. the siege, and withdrew to his strongly- and C. Juventius, may have had equal or greater
fortified capital of Scodra, and a great part of his reputation among the members'of their own proarmy surrendered to the Romans. The clemency fession; but they did not, like Gallus, exercise'
of the Roman praetor led the towns to follow the much influence on the progress of their art. He
example of the soldiers, and Gallus thus advanced was an eques and senator. At the-end of the year
towards Scodra. Gentius left the place to meet B. c. 67 he:was elected praetor along with Cicerohis enemy in the open field; but the courage thus and, in the discharge of his office, greatly signalised
displayed did not last, for he was soon put to himself by legal reforms, of which we shall prefight, and upwards. of 200 men being killed in sently take notice. During his praetorship he
hurrying back through the gates, the king, ter- presided in quaestiones de ambitu, while the jurified in the highest degree, immediately sent the risdiction in cases de pecuniis repetundis was -asnoblest Illyrians as ambassadors to Anicius Gallus signed to his colleague. (Cic. pro Cluent. 54.) He
to beg for a truce of three days, that he might have never aspired to the consulship, for he was prudent
time to consider what was to be done.. This re- and unambitious, or rather, his ambition was s8tis