Gallio
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
brother Gallio · my master Gallio
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca's teacher, remembered for fleeing Achaia when he fell ill there.
I had on my lips the saying of my master Gallio, who, when he had begun to have a fever in Achaia, immediately went aboard ship, crying out that the sickness belonged not to his body but to the place.
On the Happy Life
Seneca's brother, the addressee of the treatise on the happy life.
To live happily, brother Gallio, is the wish of all men, but when it comes to seeing clearly what it is that makes life happy, they are in the dark;