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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gallio
     the elder brother of Seneca the philosopher, who was tutor and
     for some time minister of the emperor Nero. He was "deputy",
     i.e., proconsul, as in Revised Version, of Achaia, under the
     emperor Claudius, when Paul visited Corinth (Acts 18:12). The
     word used here by Luke in describing the rank of Gallio shows


     his accuracy. Achaia was a senatorial province under Claudius,
     and the governor of such a province was called a "proconsul." He
     is spoken of by his contemporaries as "sweet Gallio," and is
     described as a most popular and affectionate man. When the Jews
     brought Paul before his tribunal on the charge of persuading
     "men to worship God contrary to the law" (18:13), he refused to
     listen to them, and "drave them from the judgment seat" (18:16).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gallio, who sucks, or lives on milk
  

















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