Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (5 BC-65 AD) was the Proconsul of Achaea from 51 to 52 AD.
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Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus was the son of Seneca the Elder and the elder brother of Seneca the Younger, and he was adopted by the rhetorician Lucius Junius Gallio. He was banished to Corsica with his brother, but they returned together to Rome when Agrippina selected Seneca to serve as her son Nero's tutor. At the end of Claudius' reign, Gallio was appointed Proconsul of Achaea, serving from 51 to 52 AD. In 56 AD, he became a suffect consul of the Roman Empire, and he was forced to slit his wrists in 65 AD after being accused of participation in a conspiracy against Emperor Nero.