Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus
Introduction '''(Gaius) Vipstanus Messalla Gallus''' (c. 10 BC – aft. 60) was a Roman senator.
Life He was ''consul suffectus'' in the ''nundinium'' of July–December 48 as the colleague of Lucius Vitellius. J. Devrecker has offered the argument that the elements in his name ought to be set out as '''Gaius Messalla Vipstanus Gallus'''. Gallus has been identified as the proconsul of Asia for the term 59/60.Based on the elements of his ''cognomen'' Messalla, Ronald Syme suggested that Vipstanus Messalla Gallus was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Gallus and a postulated Valeria Messallia, paternal granddaughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus. He succeeded as ''consul suffectus'' Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla, who completed his consulate in July 48, and who has been suggested to have been his brother, also based on the elements of his ''cognomeni'' Poplicola Messalla.It is also surmised that Gallus is the father of the orator Lucius Vipstanus Messalla. Gallus' wife had earlier been married to Lucius Aquillius Lucius filius Regulus, the pontifex and quaestor of Tiberius mentioned in , and by whom she had a son named Marcus Aquilius Regulus. She has not yet been identified.
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