Gallio

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Gallio, or Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus or Gallio (lived c. 5 BC—65 AD, in office 51—52 AD), was a Roman senator and brother of the famous writer Seneca. When he was proconsul of Achaea and Corinth, he dismissed criminal charges brought by the Jews against the Apostle Paul. Gallio appears in the Book of Acts 18:12—17.

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