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Gallio (originally named Lucius Annaeus Novatus), the son of the rhetorician Seneca the Elder and the elder brother of Seneca the Younger, was born in Corduba (Cordova) c. 5 BC. He was adopted by Lucius Junius Gallio, a rhetorician of some repute, from whom he took the name of Junius Gallio.
Gallo (endonym: Galo; French: langue gallèse) is a regional language of eastern Brittany.It is one of the langues d'oïl, a Romance sub-family that includes French.Today it is spoken only by a minority of the population, as the standard form of French now predominates in this area.
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal. [2] [3] [4] However, other definitions are far broader and variously encompass the Occitan or Occitano-Romance, Gallo-Italic [5] [6] or Rhaeto-Romance languages.
Gallio may refer to: People. Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (1–65), Roman governor of Achaea; Stefano Gallio (born 1908), Italian footballer;
Related to Gaul: . Gallo-Roman culture; Gallo language, the regional language of Upper Brittany, France; Gallo-Romance, a branch of Romance languages; Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language, a branch spoken in Northern Italy of the Romance languages
Gallo-Italic; Gallo-Italian Gallo-Cisalpine Cisalpine: Geographic distribution: Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Monaco, France: Linguistic classification: Indo ...
The dialogue has the full title ad Gallionem de Vita Beata ("To Gallio on the happy life"). It was probably written in early 58 or a little earlier. [1] From incidental remarks made in the work, it is thought Seneca wrote it when he was in a position of power near the beginning of Nero's reign between 54 and 59. [2]