GAIUS AELIUS

See also:

• GALLUS, C
• GALLUS, CORNELIUS (c. 70-26 B.C.)
• GAIUS AELIUS GALLUS
• GALLUS, GAIUS CESTIUS
• GALLUS, GAIUS SULPICIUS

GALLUS  , praefect of Egypt 26-24 B.C . By order of Augustus he undertook an expedition to Arabia Felix, with disastrous results . The troops suffered greatly from disease, heat, want of water and the obstinate resistance of the in-habitants . The treachery of a foreign guide also added to his difficulties . After six months Gallus was obliged to return to Alexandria, having lost the greater part of his force . He was a friend of the geographer Strabo, who gives an account of the expedition (xvi. pp . 780-782; see also Dio Cassius liii . 29; Pliny, Nat . Hist. vi . 32; C . Merivale, Hist. of the Romans under the Empire, ch . 34; H .

Kruger, Der Feldzug des A . G. nach dem glucklichen Arabien, 1862) . He has been identified with the Aelius Gallus frequently quoted by Galen, whose remedies are stated to have been used with success in an Arabian expedition .