Galba (cognomen)
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- For other uses, see Galba (disambiguation)Galba (disambiguation)Galba may refer to:* several ancient Romans; see Galba ; especially:*Galba, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Roman Emperor AD 68-69*Martí Joan de Galba, 15th century Catalan writer...
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Galba is an ancient Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
cognomen
Cognomen
The cognomen nōmen "name") was the third name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name in order to identify a particular branch within...
borne by a branch of the patrician gens
Gens
In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...
Sulpicia.
The name is sometimes thought to be Celtic
Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
in origin, from a root related to Old Irish golb, "paunchy, fat." Suetonius offers four possible derivations, including the Gaulish galba meaning "fat."
Republican Rome
- Publius Sulpicius Galba MaximusPublius Sulpicius Galba MaximusPublius Sulpicius Galba Maximus was a consul of Rome in 211 BC, when he defended the city against the surprise attack by Hannibal.He was proconsul in Greece from 210 to 206, continuing the First Macedonian War against Philip V of Macedon...
, consul and dictator of the 3rd century BC, who fought against Hannibal - Servius Sulpicius Galba (consul 144 BC)Servius Sulpicius Galba (consul 144 BC)Servius Sulpicius Galba was a consul of Rome in 144 BC.He served as tribune of the soldiers in the second legion in Macedonia, under Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, to whom he was personally hostile...
, soldier, politician and orator of the 2nd century BC who served as consul in 144 BC - Servius Sulpicius Galba (consul 108 BC), soldier, politician and orator of the 2nd century BC who served as consul in 108 BC
- Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor 54 BC)Servius Sulpicius Galba (praetor 54 BC)Servius Sulpicius Galba, praetor in 54 BC.As legate of Julius Caesar's 12th Legion during his Gallic Wars, he was defeated by the Nantuates in 57 BC. Later, however, angered due to Caesar's opposition to his campaign for the consulship, he joined the conspiracy with Brutus and Cassius, and was...
, politician and military officer of the 1st century BC
Celts
- GalbaGalba (Suessiones)Galba was a king of the Suessiones, a Celtic polity of Belgic Gaul, during the Gallic Wars. When Julius Caesar entered the part of Gaul that was still independent of Roman rule in 58 BC, a number of Belgic polities formed a defensive alliance and universally acclaimed Galba commander-in-chief...
, a king of the SuessionesSuessionesThe Suessiones were a Belgic tribe of Western Belgium in the 1st century BC, inhabiting the region between the Oise and the Marne, based around the present-day city of Soissons...
of Belgic Gaul in the 1st century BC