Marcus Vipstanus Gallus

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Marcus Vipstanus Gallus (dates of birth and death unknown) was a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century. Marcus was made suffect consul in 18 with Gaius Rubellius Blandus as his colleague. [1]

His relative, Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, was a praetor who died in 17. It is unknown whether Marcus was a brother or a cousin of Lucius. [2]

His son, Lucius Vipstanus Publicola, became an ordinary consul in 48, and another son, Messalla Vipstanus Gallus, was made suffect consul in the same year. [3]

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References

  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
  2. Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 241.
  3. Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, Vol. 12/2, p. 240