Galba
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Emperor Galba
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Roman orator noted for learning.
For it is recorded that Galba, Africanus, and Laelius were men of learning, and that Cato, who was older than they, was eager for it;
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor who abolished Claudius's consolidated vacation, restricting litigation gaps to holy days.
Galba abolished this vacation, and confined the intervals of litigation to dies feriati.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman emperor.
The latter writer, in the first book of his History, relates that Galba ordered every tenth man of those, whom he had, upon their earnest supplication, admitted to surrender, to be beheaded:
Adversus Judaeos
Roman emperor counted with his brief regnal length in the chronological reckoning.
Galba, seven months, six days.
Adversus Marcionem
Roman emperor invoked as an illustrative analogy: he did not free slaves belonging to others, paralleling the argument that only the Creator can free from the bondage of his own law.
one from Mount Sinai, generating into the bondage of the synagogue of the Jews according to the law, the other generating above every principality, might, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but in that to come, which is our mother, into which we have promised the holy church;