Galba
12. C.
Sulpicius Galba, a son of No. 11, and father of the emperor Galba.
He was consul in A. D. 22, with D. Haterius Agrippa.
He was humpbacked, and an orator of moderate power.
He was married to Mummia Achaica, a great granddaughter of Mummius, the destroyer of Corinth.
After her death he married Livia Ocellina, a wealthy and beautiful woman.
By his former wife he had two sons, Caius and Servius.
The former of them is said by Suetonius (
Galb. 3) to have made away with himself, because Tiberius would not allow him to enter on his proconsulship ; but as it is not known that he ever was consul, it is more probable that Suetonius is mistaken, and that what he relates of the son Caius applies to his father, C. Sulpicius Galba, who, according to Tacitus (
Tac. Ann. 6.40), put an end to himself in A. D. 36. [
L.S]
To which of the preceding P. Galbae the following coin belongs is doubtful.
It has on the obverse a female head, and on the reverse a culter, a simpuvium, and a secespita, with P. GALB. AED. CUR.
