Galba
type: Q19088
type: NaturalPerson
type: Q5
type: Q729
type: Person
type: Thing
type: Q215627
type: Animal
type: Eukaryote
type: Species
label: غالبا @ar
label: 塞尔维乌斯·苏尔皮基乌斯·加尔巴 @zh
label: Galba (keizer) @nl
label: 갈바 @ko
label: Гальба @uk
label: Galbo @eo
label: Γάλβας @el
label: ガルバ @ja
subject: Category:Leaders who took power by coup
subject: Category:Murdered Roman emperors
subject: Category:Galba
subject: Category:3 BC births
subject: Category:Sulpicii Galbae
subject: Category:Roman consuls who died in office
subject: Category:69 deaths
subject: Category:Livii
subject: Category:Roman governors of Hispania Tarraconensis
subject: Category:1st-century murdered monarchs
subject: Category:Imperial Roman consuls
subject: Category:Roman pharaohs
subject: Category:Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard
subject: Category:Roman legates
subject: Category:1st-century BC Romans
subject: Category:People of the Year of the Four Emperors
subject: Category:People from the Province of Latina
subject: Category:1st-century Roman emperors
subject: Category:Ancient Roman adoptees
subject: Category:Ancient Roman military personnel
subject: Category:Imperial Roman praetors
footer: Sestertius of Galba. Obverse: . Libertas standing on the reverse; legend: , meaning "liberty to the people, senatus consultum".
child: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus
parent: Mummia Achaica
parent: Livia Ocellina
parent: Gaius Sulpicius Galba (consul 5 BC)
predecessor: Nero
spouse: Aemilia Lepida
successor: Otho
father: Gaius Sulpicius Galba (consul 5 BC)
full name: Servius Sulpicius Galba
full name: Lucius Livius Ocella Sulpicius Galba
issue: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus
mother: Mummia Achaica
mother: Livia Ocellina
reign: 1968-06-08
succession: Roman emperor
after: Lucius Salvius Otho
after: L. Salvius Otho Titianus II
after: Otho
after: Gaius Octavius Laenas
before: Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (father of Nero)
before: Bellicia gens
before: Publius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus
before: Aulus Vitellius (consul 32)
image: Bronze Sestertius of Galba .jpg
align: right
as: suffect consuls
author: Suetonius
regnal name: Imperator Servius Galba Caesar Augustus
with: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (consul 33)
with: Titus Vinius
active years end year: 1969
active years start year: 1968
birth date: -003-12-24
birth place: Near Terracina, Italy, Roman Empire
death date: --01-15
death place: Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
text: ...To these brigands, each with his different vice, he so entrusted and handed himself over as their tool, that his conduct was far from consistent; for now he was more exacting and niggardly, and now more extravagant and reckless than became a prince chosen by the people and of his time of life. He condemned to death distinguished men of both orders on trivial suspicions without a trial. He rarely granted Roman citizenship, and the privileges of threefold paternity to hardly one or two, and even to those only for a fixed and limited time. When the jurors petitioned that a sixth division be added to their number, he not only refused, but even deprived them of the privilege granted by Claudius, of not being summoned for court duty in winter and at the beginning of the year.
text: Accordingly, his coming was not so welcome as it might have been, and this was apparent at the first performance in the theatre; for when the actors of an Atellan farce began the familiar lines "Here comes Onesimus from his farm" all the spectators at once finished the song in chorus and repeated it several times with appropriate gestures, beginning with that verse. Thus his popularity and prestige were greater when he won, than while he ruled the empire, though he gave many proofs of being an excellent prince; but he was by no means so much loved for those qualities as he was hated for his acts of the opposite character.
text: He was of average height, very bald, with blue eyes and a hooked nose. His hands and feet were so distorted by gout that he could not endure a shoe for long, unroll a book, or even hold one. The flesh on his right side too had grown out and hung down to such an extent, that it could with difficulty be held in place by a bandage. It is said that he was a heavy eater and in winter time was in the habit of taking food even before daylight, while at dinner he helped himself so lavishly that he would have the leavings which remained in a heap before him passed along and distributed among the attendants who waited on him..... He met his end in the seventy-third year of his age and the seventh month of his reign. The senate, as soon as it was allowed to do so, voted him a statue standing upon a column adorned with the beaks of ships, in the part of the Forum where he was slain; but Vespasian annulled this decree, believing that Galba had sent assassins from Spain to Judaea, to take his life.