(Servius Sulpicius), a Roman emperor, born the 24th of December, five years before the Christian era. He was gradually raised to the greatest offices of the state, and exercised his power in the provinces with the greatest equity and unremitting diligence. He dedicated the greatest part of his time to solitary pursuits, chiefly to avoid the fulsiccions of Nero. His disapprobation of the emperor's oppressive command in the provinces was the cause of new disturbances. Nero ordered him to be put to death; but he escaped from the hands of the executioner, and was publicly saluted emperor. When he was seated on the throne, he suffered himself to be governed by favourites, who exposed the goods of the citizens to sale to gratify their avarice. Exemptions were sold at a high price; and the crime of murder was blotted out, and impunity purchased with a large sum of money. Such irregularities in the emperor's ministers greatly displeased the people; and when Galba refused to pay the soldiers the money which he had promised them when he was raised to the throne, they assassinated him in the 73rd year of his age, and the eighth month of his reign. The virtues which had shone so bright in Galba when a private man, totally disappeared when he ascended the throne; and he who showed himself the most impartial judge, forgot the duties of an emperor and of a father of his people.