GALLIO, IUNIUS ANNAEUS (originally Lucius AN NAEUS NOVATUS), son of the rhetorician L. Annaeus Seneca and the elder brother of L. Annaeus Seneca the philosopher, was born at Corduba (Cordova) about the beginning of the Christian era. At Rome he was adopted by L. Iunius Gallio, a rhetorician. Both Seneca and Statius speak of his charm of disposition. It is probable that he was banished to Corsica with his brother, and that both returned to Rome when Agrippina selected Seneca to be tutor to Nero. For a few years Gallio was proconsul of the newly constituted senatorial province of Achaea. During his tenure of office (in A.D. S3) he dismissed the charge brought by the Jews against the apostle Paul (Acts xviii.). His behaviour on this occasion ("But Gallio cared for none of these things") shows the impartial attitude of the Roman officials towards Christianity in its early days. He survived his brother Seneca, but was subse quently put to death by order of Nero (in 65) or committed suicide.