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	Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The primary concern of Galba during his brief reign was in restoring state finances, and to this end he undertook a number of unpopular measures, the most dangerous of which was his refusal to pay the praetorians the reward promised in his name.
		Galba scorned the notion that soldiers should be bribed for their loyalty.
		Galba, who at once set out to meet the rebels — he was so feeble that he had to be carried in a litter — was met by a troop of cavalry and butchered near the Lacus Curtius (additional info and facts about Lacus Curtius).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/galba.htm (506 words)

	Galba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the spring of 68, Galba was informed of Nero's intention to put him to death, and of the insurrection of Julius Vindex in Gaul.
		Salvius Otho, formerly governor of Lusitania, and one of Galba's earliest supporters, disappointed at not being chosen instead of Piso, entered into communication with the discontented Praetorians, and was adopted by them as their emperor.
		Galba, who at once set out to meet the rebels — he was so feeble that he had to be carried in a litter — was met by a troop of cavalry and was butchered near the Lacus Curtius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galba (695 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Galba
		The evidence for the principate of Galba is unsatisfactory.
		Galba's marriage proved to be a further source of disappointment, as he outlived both his wife Lepida and their two sons.
		Galba's eight-year term, although lengthy, was not unprecedented.
	www.roman-emperors.org /galba.htm (2697 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Histories by Tacitus
		Even the age of Galba caused ridicule and disgust among those whose associations were with the youth of Nero, and who were accustomed, as is the fashion of the vulgar, to value their emperors by the beauty and grace of their persons.
		Galba indeed was aware of the friendship between Vinius and Otho; the gossip of those who allow nothing to pass in silence had named them as father-in-law and son-in-law, for Vinius had a widowed daughter, and Otho was unmarried.
		Galba was hurried to and fro with every movement of the surging crowd; the halls and temples all around were thronged with spectators of this mournful sight.
	classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/histories.1.i.html (11325 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Galba by Plutarch
		Galba was also akin to Livia, the wife of Augustus, by whose interest he was preferred to the consulship by the emperor.
		Galba laid the matter before his friends, some of whom thought it fit to wait, and see what movement there might be and what inclinations displayed at Rome for the revolution.
		Tidings came immediately to Galba in the Palatium, whilst the priests were still present and the sacrifices at hand, so that persons who were most entirely incredulous about such things, and most positive in their neglect of them, were astonished, and began to marvel at the divine event.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/galba.html (4631 words)

	Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the spring of 68 Galba was of Nero's intention to put him to and of the insurrection of Julius Vindex in Gaul.
		The primary concern of Galba during his reign was in restoring state finances and this end he undertook a number of measures the most dangerous of which was refusal to pay the praetorians the reward in his name.
		On January 1 69 two legions in Upper Germany to swear loyalty to Galba and toppled statues demanding that a new emperor be on the next day the soldiers of Germany also rebelled and took the decision who should be the next emperor into own hands proclaiming the governor of the Vitellius as emperor.
	www.freeglossary.com /Servius_Sulpicius_Galba (728 words)

	Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The emperor Servius Galba was born in the consulship of Marcus Valerius Messala and Gnaeus Lentulus, on the ninth day before the Kalends of January [December 24, 3 B.C.E.], in a country house situated on a hill near Tarracina, on the left as you go towards Fundi.
		Afterwards when Galba was beginning his revolt, nothing gave him so much encouragement as the foaling of a mule, and while the rest were horrified and looked on it as an unfavorable omen, he alone regarded it as most propitious, remembering the sacrifice and his grandfather's saying.
		One of the two divisions of cavalrymen, repenting of its change of allegiance, attempted to desert Galba as he was approaching his camp, and was with difficulty prevented.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/roman-suetonius-galba.htm (3517 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Otho
		First to emerge was Servius Sulpicius Galba, governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, who had been encouraged to revolt by the praetorians and especially by Nymphidius Sabinus, the corrupt and scheming praetorian prefect at Rome.
		Galba had been in Rome little more than two months when on 1 January 69 the troops in Upper Germany refused to declare allegiance to him and instead followed the men stationed in Lower Germany in proclaiming their commander, Aulus Vitellius, as the new ruler.
		Nevertheless, his violent overthrow of Galba, the lingering doubts that it raised about his character, and his unsuccessful offensive against Vitellius are all vivid reminders of the turbulence that plagued the Roman world between the reigns of Nero and Vespasian.
	www.roman-emperors.org /otho.htm (2221 words)

	Galba
		Servius Sulpicius Galba was born on 24 December 3 BC, in a country villa near Tarracina, the son of patrician parents, Gaius Sulpicius Galba and Mummia Achaica.
		Galba was an old disciplinarian whose methods owed much to cruelty, and he was notoriously mean.
		Galba moved into Gaul with some of his troops, where he received the first deputation from the senate in early July.
	www.roman-empire.net /emperors/galba.html (932 words)

	Galba. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A.D. 68 an insurrection against Nero broke out, and Galba was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
		A few months after his reign began, a rebellion led by Otho took place.
		Galba’s brief reign was distinguished by an honest but parsimonious administration.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ga/Galba.html (119 words)

	(80) Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Servius Sulpicius Galba, who was born into an old aristocratic family and who had served as governor in Germany and Spain, joined the revolt against Nero, was hailed imperator by his troops, and assumed the title Augustus on the death of Nero.
		Galba issued coins during the revolt, before he had been confirmed as Augustus by the Senate, and these featured types and slogans of the revolt promising the restitution of Rome and of liberty.
		Galba's portrait on the obverse shows that he rejected the youthful classicism of the Julio-Claudians and the flourishes of Nero for an uncompromising realism perhaps meant to recall the verism of the late republic and to appeal to the military upon which his power depended.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/080.html (295 words)

	PBS: The Roman Empire in the First Century - The Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Galba had a reputation as a merciless disciplinarian, and his new government soon became oppressive.
		Otho, who had served Galba faithfully only to be passed over as the aged ruler's heir, organized the Guard in a plot against the Emperor.
		The Praetorians cut down Galba and his heir in public, and paraded their heads through the streets of Rome.
	www.pbs.org /empires/romans/empire/empire4.html (216 words)

	Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Galba Emperor A. Galba was an old man of 73 when he became emperor.
		Galba was the first to reach Rome, and the Praetorian Guard trapped the unfortunate Nero in a friend's house in Ostia, where the cowardly Nero committed suicide.
		Galba was a man who believed that a Roman soldier should do his duty out of love for his country and not to expect any extra pay for doing what he was supposed to do.
	users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/Galba.html (251 words)

	An Emperor in trouble – Galba’s relationship with the Roman Army
		Galba had also seemed to be completely disconnected from his troops and supporters; he was totally isolated by his three favorites, Icelus, Titus Vinius and Cornelius Laco.
		Galba was also prone to making such decisions because of his inflexibility and to listen to unscrupulous advisers, thus cutting himself off from his real bases of power and losing his reputation and the goodwill of the Army, Senate and people because of them.
		And unfortunately for Galba, he didn’t have the machinery of the State in total control and a good rapport with the army as some of his predecessors did before Nero or as some of these other more modern leaders did, and that certainly was a major cause of his downfall.
	www.jerryfielden.com /essays/GALBA.HTM (868 words)

	Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus was a consul of Rome in 211 BC, when he defended the city against the surprise attack by Hannibal.
		Galba was notable for leading the first Roman fleet into the Aegean Sea and capturing Aegina (210), but otherwised achieved little, and most of the fighting was done by the Greek allies of Rome.
		In 197 and 196, Galba was one of ten senatorial commissioners helping Titus Flamininus settle political issues in Greece, and ambassador to Antiochus III the Great in 193.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/P._Sulpicius_Galba_Maximus (228 words)

	Rome, from Golden Age to Political Chaos
		Galba tried to correct the misrule of Nero by restoring Rome's finances and restoring discipline to the military.
		Galba turned the Praetorian Guard against him by announcing that he had adopted someone as his heir-apparent and failing to pay the Praetorian Guard the donation that it had come to expect for supporting a new emperor.
		On January 15, 69, Galba was cut down in the street by guardsmen on horseback.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch21.htm (7192 words)

	The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus:book 1
		Galba himself was not blind to the friendship existing between Otho and Titus Vinius, while wagging tongues could not resist prophesying that, as Vinius had an unwedded daughter and Otho was single, a marriage would conveniently seal the alliance.
		I believe that Galba had begun to be anxious, too, about the welfare of his country, for it was little use having seized power from Nero if this were to pass to Otho.
		Galba ordered the recipients to be sent individual demand-notices, on the understanding that each was to retain one tenth of what he had received.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap2.htm (9380 words)

	Encyclopedia: Galba
		Bust of the Roman Emperor Galba, at Museé du Louvre.
		December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years).
		The forced suicide of emperor Nero, in 68 AD, was followed by a brief period of civil war (the first Roman civil war since Antonys death in 31 BC) known as the Year of the four emperors.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galba (542 words)

	TIRANT LO BLANC: AN ANALYSIS OF ITS TRANSITIONAL STYLES
		Later a nephew of Galba’s documented that the printer, Spindeler, had the other ten volumes of the novel which belonged to Galba’s descendants.
		In this book Riquer recants his former 1947 conviction that Galba’s intervention in the totality of the novel was progressive, beginning with chapter 349, and almost total after chapter 416.
		Martorell and Galba employed many variations on the introduction “féu principi a paraules de semblant estil.” A second type of chapter closing which serves as an introduction to the ensuing chapter is one which alludes to a letter between two of the characters in the book.
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1992/Spanish-html/Hintz,Suzanne.htm (3146 words)

	Galba, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
		GALBA IMP, laureate head left, globe at point of bust / DIVA AVGVSTA, Livia standing left holding patera & scepter.
		Galba Denarius, IMP SER GALBA AVG, laureate head right / Virtus standing, head left, holding sword and scepter, VIR-TVS across field.
		Galba AE Sestertius SER SVLPI GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG P M TR P Bust laureate draped left / HONOS ET VIRTVS S C Honos holding cornucopia and scepter and Virtus holding parazonium and scepter standing facing one another.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/ric/galba/i.html (2438 words)

	Galba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another one of the short-lived emperors during the Roman civil wars of this period, Galba was the Governor of Spain at the time of Nero's downfall.
		Galba made his way to Rome where he proceeded to make enemies out of all his former supporters.
		Rev: Galba standing right on podium, accompanied by praetorian prefect behind him, addressing two helmeted soldier, each with shields and one with spear, a horse facing between them.
	www.dirtyoldcoins.com /natto/id/galba.htm (1752 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum--Galba, c. 110 C.E.
		The family acquired distinction from Servius Galba, who became consul [146 B.C.E. ] and was decidedly the most eloquent speaker of his time.
		This man, they say, was the cause of the war with Viriathus [150-136 B.C.E. ], because while governing Hispania as propraetor, he treacherously massacred thirty thousand of the Lusitanians.
		The emperor Servius Galba was born in the consulship of Marcus Valerius Messala and Gnaeus Lentulus, on the ninth day before the Kalends of January [December 24, 3 B.C.E. ], in a country house situated on a hill near Tarracina, on the left as you go towards Fundi.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/suet-galba-rolfe.html (3518 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcus Salvius Otho
		In contrast to the miserly Galba, he sought to win the affection of the troops by generosity.
		As Galba hurried to take measures against this procedure, he and his escort encountered his opponents at the Forum; there was a struggle, and Galba was murdered.
		Alienus Cæcina, who had been punished by Galba for his outrageous extortion, persuaded the legions of northern Germany to agree to this choice; their example was followed by the troops in Britain.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11351b.htm (580 words)

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		Project Gutenberg's Sergius Sulpicius Galba (Galba), by C. Suetonius Tranquillus This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
		Sergius Galba, a person of consular rank [644], and the most eloquent man of his time, gave a lustre to the family.
		The emperor Sergius Galba was born in the consulship of M. Valerius Messala, and Cn.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/6/3/9/6392/6392.txt (6288 words)

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