GALBA

(Servius Sulpicius Galba)gălˈbə, 3 b.c.–a.d. 69, Roman emperor (a.d. 68–a.d. 69). He distinguished himself in a political and military career as praetor (a.d. 20), governor of Aquitania, consul (a.d. 33), commander in Gaul, and governor of Hispania Tarraconensis (a.d. 60). In a.d. 68 an insurrection against Nero broke out, and Galba was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. Nero committed suicide, and Galba succeeded him. A few months after his reign began, a rebellion led by Otho took place. Galba was killed, and Otho succeeded him. Galba's brief reign was distinguished by an honest but parsimonious administration.

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Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
Book by Clifford Ando; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Allegiance--Rome, Political Stability--Rome, Rome--Cultural Policy--Influence, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Influence, Rome--Provinces--Administration
...nos. 1 2 314 BMC 1, Clodius Macer nos. 3 4 314 BMC 1, Clodius Macer no. 5 314 BMC 1, Galba nos. 1 2 315 BMC 1, Galba nos. 14 18 315 BMC 1, Galba nos. 25 28 314 BMC 1, Galba nos. 77 84 314 BMC 1, Galba nos. 87 108 314 BMC 1, Galba...
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Nero: The End of a Dynasty
Book by Miriam T. Griffin; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68, Rome--History--Nero, 54-68
...legatus ) pro praetore of a Gallic province (Plut. Galba 4. 2) which was unarmed (Tacitus Hist. 1. 16...namely his letters to provincial governors (Plut. Galba 4. 2; Suet. Galba 9. 2) and to exiled senators (Joann. Antioch...
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The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Clayton J. Drees; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval--Dictionaries, Europe--History--1492-1517--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--476-1492--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Social Conditions--To 1492--Dictionaries
...indeed the only author. It is unknown when Galba was bom, but there is evidence that his...father was the knight Mossen Guerau de Galba, and his mother was known as Elionor, her last name unmentioned in any records. The Galba family was of noble heritage, the family...
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Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth
Book by Conyers Read; Alfred A. Knopf, 1960
Subjects: Burghley, William Cecil--Baron--1520-1598, Elizabeth--I--Queen Of England--1533-1603
...R.O. and in B.M., Cotton MSS., Galba C xi, D i, ii, and in the Harleian MSS...1582, 6994. 2 B.M., Cotton MSS., Galba C xi, ff. 288, 292. 3 P.B.O...xii-200-21; B.M., Cotton MSS., Galba C xi, f. 288. 4 Walsingham wrote to...
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Aspects of Roman History, AD 14-117
Book by Richard Alston; Routledge, 1998
Galba embarked on a limited reordering of the provincial...previous incumbents had been executed or had accompanied Galba to Rome, but also Verginius Rufus had been removed from his post. Galba could hardly reward him since he had been responsible...
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Effects of Selection and Drift on G Matrix Evolution in a Heterogeneous Environment: a Multivariate Q^sub St^-f^sub St^ Test with the Freshwater Snail Galba Truncatula
Journal article by Elodie Chapuis, Guillaume Martin, Jérôme Goudet; Genetics, Vol. 180, 2008
Subjects: Genetic diversity, Habitats, Matrix, Population
...Multivariate Q^sub St^-f^sub St^ Test with the Freshwater Snail Galba Truncatula by Elodie Chapuis , Guillaume Martin , Jerome Goudet...a naturally subdivided population of the freshwater snail (Galba truncatula), to quantify and test for the impact of selection...
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The Middle English Book of Penance and the Readers of the Cursor Mundi
Journal article by Guy Trudel; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005
Subjects: English language--Research, English literature--Analysis
...manuscript readings (from MSS C, G, F, and Galba), as part of his EETS edition of the...Paternoster (which is also found in MS Galba), a metrical exposition on the Creed...copies of the Prick of Conscience (R, Galba, and W). One smaller poem which describes...
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Another Look at the Disappearing Christ: Corporeal and Spiritual Vision in Early Medieval Images
Journal article by Robert Deshman; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Jesus Christ, Middle Ages
...angels, an iconography adopted by the Galba Psalter (Fig. 1);3 and in Western...early tenth-century miniature in the Galba Psalter portrayed angels carrying the mandorla...abbreviated version of the same prayer in the Galba Psalter was illustrated with a cycle of...
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The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver
Journal article by John Pollini; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, 1999
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Homosexuality, Roman civilization
...could be said to be a homosexual. Even Galba, Suetonius says ( Vita Galbae 22), was...prone in his passion toward males," whom Galba preferred "hardbodied" and "past their...pronior (more prone) would indicate that Galba, too, was ambisexual, although in his...
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Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*
Journal article by Katherine Elliot Van Liere; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: College students--Addresses, essays, lectures, Orations--16th century, Renaissance--Social aspects, Salamanca, Spain--16th century
...vulgaretur statim disce inquam militare miles Galba est." 5 vestra tamen benevolentia ductus...de caesaribus 6.13. Servius Sulpicius Galba, Neros successor as emperor of Rome...examiners to the stern, elderly figure of Galba and himself to the frightened young soldier...
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Murder Most Foul: Robert Garland Asks What Murder Meant to the Apparently Bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans
Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Murder--Social aspects
...occurred in 150 BC when the governor of Spain, Servius Sulpicius Galba, under guise of friendship, ordered the Lusitanians of south...lay down their arms. After surrounding them with a ditch, Galba ordered his legionaries to slaughter them in cold blood. Though...
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Rome's Dark Night of Tyranny: When the Republic Fell, Rome Entered the Dark Decline of Empire. Only after Centuries of Misery under Predominantly Tyrannical Emperors Did Rome Finally Meet Its End
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Roman culture--Analysis, Roman culture--History
...Neros behavior finally brought about armed revolt, led by Galba, who marched on Rome in 68 A.D. Nero committed suicide as...slaughter and civil war, as three more bloodthirsty tyrants--Galba, Otho, and Vitellius--succeeded to the purple by violent...
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The Secret of Stellar Managers
Magazine article by Sarah Fister Gale; PM Network, Vol. 20, February 2006
Subjects: Automotive parts, Case studies, Eaton Corp, Empathy, Intelligence, Leadership, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, Professional development, Project management, United States
...For project managers, the ability to inspire and motivate helps them achieve strategic change, says Galba Bright, principal consultant at Galba Bright Associates, an emotional intelligence training and coaching service in St. James, Jamaica...
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Domitian and the Dynamics of Terror in Classical Rome
Magazine article by Peter Wiseman; History Today, Vol. 46, September 1996
Subjects: Despotism--Analysis, Domitian, Emperor of Rome--Evaluation, Roman emperors--Political activity, Roman law--Social aspects, Rome (Ancient)--Politics and government
...too resorted to the simpler line of openly autocratic rule. He was deposed by Galba (AD 68-9), who had first challenged him in the name of the Republic; but Galba, and the pretenders Otho and Vitellius, died in the civil war of AD 69, and...
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Beyond the Hype
Magazine article by Sarah Fister Gale; PM Network, Vol. 21, April 2007
Subjects: Emotions, Managerial skills, Project management, Training, United States
...different and what you need to do to enhance your emotional intelligence depends on where they are," adds Galba Bright, principal consultant of Galba Bright Associates, a provider of emotional intelligence knowledge products and services based in St...
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No Going Back for 'The Best PM We Never Had' ANALYSIS
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 4, 2007
Subjects: Codon, Codons
...Tacitus summed up the disappointment of the Emperor Galba (who occupied the position for only a few months...office. Anthony Eden has this much in common with Galba. We might add that Galba would not have hesitated in intervening in Egypt...
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Gordon Caesar and the Fall of the Labour Empire
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 16, 2008
Subjects: Political parties
...will use itagain. Tacitus on the reign of the Roman Emperor Galba. Omnium consensu capax imperiinisi imperassetall could agree that he had the ability to be emperor, had he not becomeemperor. Galba lasted seven months. APART from seeing the Government degenerate...
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The Forgotten Battle; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 27, 2006
Subjects: Malalas, John
...eyes (John Malalas 10.317); Nero had fairish hair and grey-blue eyes (Suetonius, Nero 51); Galba had blue eyes ( Suetonius, Galba 21); and Vitellius had grey eyes (John Malalas 10.335). Vespasian had wine-coloured eyes (John...
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The Day Football Came Home
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 8, 2006
Subjects: Rashad, Ahmad
...Haller, Franz Beckenbauer, Wolfgang Overath, Uwe Seeler, Siegfried Held, Lothar Emmerich, Michael Jaye. Officials: Gottfried Dienst of Switzerland (referee), Tofik Bakhramov of the USSR and Karol Galba of Czechoslovakia (linesmen).
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You Can Bully FF but Not the President of Ireland, Furious Lenihan Shouted at Gormley
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 3, 2011
Subjects: Gormley, John, Political parties
...Cowen was gone as party leader. Mr Davin Power said of Mr Cowen that he reminded him of the judgement of Tacitus on the Emperor Galba - capax imperii nisi imperasset - regarded by all as capable of ruling, until he had to rule. The Green Party believed last...
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Galba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GALBA (Servius Sulpicius Galba)gal b , 3 b.c. a.d. 69, Roman emperor (a.d. 68 a.d...60). In a.d. 68 an insurrection against Nero broke out, and Galba was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. Nero committed suicide...
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Otho, Marcus Salvius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a.d. 58) with the province of Lusitania. In a.d. 68 he joined the revolt of Galba against Nero, but on Galbas accession Otho formed a conspiracy. Galba was killed, and Otho made himself emperor. Meanwhile Vitellius had been proclaimed...
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Tacitus , Roman Historian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Annals (of which twelve books Books I-VI, XI-XVI survive). The extant books of the Histories cover only the reign of Galba (a.d. 68 69) and the beginning (to a.d. 70) of the reign of Vespasian but give a thorough view of Roman life persons...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...d. 37 Caligula, grandnephew of Tiberius, 37 41 Claudius, uncle of Caligula, 41 54 Nero, stepson of Claudius, 54 68 Galba, proclaimed emperor by his soldiers, 68 69 Otho, military commander, 69 Vespasian, military commander, 69 79 Vitellius...
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Vitellius, Aulus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...vitel e s, a.d. 15 a.d. 69, Roman emperor (a.d. 69). He was made commander of the legions on the lower Rhine by Galba in a.d. 68. On Galbas death he was proclaimed emperor at Colonia Agrippina (now Cologne). The generals who favored him...
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