Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus

Gaius Asinius Gallus ( * 41 BC; † 33 AD) was a Roman politician at the time of the Emperor Augustus and Tiberius.

Gallus was the son of Gaius Asinius Pollio senator and historian. 23 or 22 BC, he was Master of the Mint ( tresvir monetalis ). In 8 BC Gallus became a full consul. In his consulship he conducted a Tiber regulation. 6/5 BC, he held the office of proconsul of the province of Asia; a few years later (around 1 AD), he was perhaps governor of the province of Hispania Citerior. When Augustus died in 14 AD, Gallus was one of the leading senators, the ambitions were rumored to rule. But the new Emperor Tiberius, he was hated because he was married 12 BC, whose former wife Vipsania Agrippina. In the year 20 AD, he refused to defend the alleged assassination of the heir Germanicus Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso accused. He was regarded as supporters of the praetorian prefect Sejanus and was convicted for alleged treason in the year 30 to death, but not executed, but held captive for three years until his death from starvation.

In the year 17 BC Gallus is shown at the Augustan Secular celebrations as one of the Quindecimviri Sacris Faciundis. 15 AD he applied in that capacity, to consult the Sibylline books because of a flood disaster in Rome. A son of his was the consul of 23 AD, Gaius Asinius Pollio.