Lucius Caninius Gallus (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman politician who served as consul in 37 BC.
He was a member of the Plebeian gens Caninia. Gallus was the son of Lucius Caninius Gallus, and a grandson of Gaius Antonius Hybrida.Valerius Maximus, IV, 2, 6 Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome (2004), pg. 130 He was thus related to the triumvir Mark Antony, and was a second cousin to Mark Anthony's children, such as Antonia Minor (mother of Germanicus and emperor Claudius) and Cleopatra Selene II, Queen of Mauretania. Gallus was probably elected to the office of Praetor by 40 BC at the latest.Broughton, pg. 380 He was then elected consul alongside Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 37 BC.Broughton, pg. 395 He had a son by the same name who was consul in 2 BC.
Gallus may have been a patron of the Latin poet Sextus Propertius.Cairns, Francis, Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist (2006), pgs. 70-71
Sources Broughton, T. Robert S., The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1951)
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