person
Servius Sulpicius Galba
Galba
One of Caesar's assassins and an ancestor of the emperor Galba; in 43 BC he served with the consular armies before Mutina. His eyewitness dispatch (Fam. 10.30) is the fullest surviving account of the battle of Forum Gallorum.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 10.30 §1 GALBA CICERONI S.
Servius Sulpicius Galba, one of Caesar's assassins and an ancestor of the emperor Galba; his eyewitness dispatch is the fullest surviving account of the battle of Forum Gallorum (14 April 43 BC).