History
Gallio was the son of the Seneca
(Roman rhetorician ) and the elder
brother of L. Annaeus Seneca ( Roman philosopher).
At
Rome
he was adopted by L. Junius Gallio, a rhetorician
of some repute, from whom he took the name
of Junius Gallio. His
brother Seneca, who dedicated to him the
treatises De Ira
and De Vita Beala, speaks of the charm
of his disposition, also alluded to by
the poet Statius (Silvae, ii. 7, 32).
"Junius Gallio was exiled to Lesbos" - Tacitus
Annals Book 6
Lesbos is Greece / Achaia
The Gallio Inscription
Archaeological evidence has been
found confirming Gallio was the proconsul
of Achaia, just as the book of Acts had
recorded. At Delphi, writes
Professor McRay, “archaeologists
found a stone which probably was once attached
to
the outer wall of the Temple of Apollo.
Inscribed in it is a copy of a letter from Claudius to
the city of Delphi, naming Gallio as the
friend of Claudius and proconsul of Achaia”
Full
Translation of the Gallio inscription Corinth
Julius Caesar rebuilt Corinth as a Roman colony.
Consequently, the remaining monuments are mainly
Roman; only a few are Greek. Attaining a population
of 750,000 under the patronage of the emperors,
the town gained a reputation for licentious
living that St. Paul attacked when he came
here. Excavations have revealed the
vast extent of the city, destroyed in Byzantine
times by earthquakes. The ruins constitute
the largest Roman township in Greece.
Scriptures
Acts 18:12 And
when Gallio
was the deputy of Achaia, the
Jews made insurrection with one accord
against
Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat Acts 18:14 And when
Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said
unto the Jews, If
it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness,
O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear
with you
Acts 18:17 Then all
the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler
of the synagogue, and beat
him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared
for none of those things
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