Talk:Sulpicia gens

The immediate family of the Emperor Galba

The list as I currently read it is confused about the members of his family. According to at least two other authorities I have (Suetonius, Gwyn Morgan, 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors, Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy), the emperor's grandfather was Sulpicius Ser. f. Galba, a minor historian, his father Gaius Sulpicius Galba, consul suffectus in 5 BC, his brother Gaius Sulpicius Galba, consul in AD 22, & the emperor himself consul in 33 & 69. But in this list, it appears that the brief description of each Sulpicius Galba has been moved to the person above him -- not helped by Cassius Dio's puzzling filiation for Galba's brother "Ser. f." I'm going to assume this was a mistake & make what I believe is the appropriate correction. Which will make much easier the task of writing articles on Galba's brother & father. -- llywrch (talk) 00:25, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

I've spent some time trying to untangle the matter since this post, and think I've succeeded. The DGRBM articles, written by Leonhard Schmitz, assumed that the consul of AD 22 had to be the emperor's father, since at the time they were written, I believe that was the only consular Galba known during this period. Schmitz therefore supposed that it must have been the father, and not the brother, who did away with himself in the reign of Tiberius after he was denied his proconsular prerogatives; Schmitz assumed that the father was the consul of 22, and the brother was not known to have been consul.

Of course, now we know that one of the Galbae was consul in 5 BC, so Tacitus' statement that it was the brother makes more sense—and your edits seem to have been correct. Although one can understand the assumption that the consul of 22 was the emperor's father, since Galba became emperor in 68, forty-six years after; a gap of seventy-three years between his father's consulship and Galba being proclaimed emperor seems improbable, although it seems to have been the case. At any rate, we also know that Galba's grandfather was named Gaius, so I've added that into the filiations; note that in this case a few filiations only had the grandfather's name, since the father's praenomen was unknown, but after spending some time with PW, I've been able to fill those in. I've also added the emperor's uncle. P Aculeius (talk) 05:29, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

One of these numbers is wrong

"but after 345 BC, when Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus was consul, we do not hear of them again for upwards of four hundred years, till Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus obtained the consulship in AD 9" Lavateraguy (talk) 9:35, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Clearly "three hundred years" is meant. Correcting it. P Aculeius (talk) 13:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)