Asinius Gallus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman senator and orator, mentioned as a politically dangerous friend/enemy figure.
For whenever the friendship of Asinius Gallus, whenever the hatred of Sejanus and then his love, had sunk anyone — for it was as dangerous to have offended him as to have loved him — men would cry out:
De Pallio
Roman figure cited for extravagant spending on a luxury table.
I drive the cautery into the ambition by which Marcus Tullius bought an orb of citron-wood for five hundred thousand sesterces, by which Asinius Gallus pays twice as much for a table of the same Mauritanian wood.