Gallio, JUNIUS ANNEUS

Gallio, JUNIUS ANNEUS, the Roman pro-consul of Achaia under Claudius when St Paul was at Corinth, 53 A.D. He was brother of the famous Seneca, and had procured his name by adoption into the family of Gallio the rhetorician. He resigned the government of Achaia owing to ill-health, and later is said to have been put to death by Nero. The narrative in the Acts tells how, with regard to the clamour of the Jews against Paul, he was 'not minded to be a judge of these matters,' and how 'Gallio cared for none of these things;' hence his name has become a synonym for a careless, easy-going, and indifferent man who keeps himself free from trouble and responsibility.