Publius Galerius Trachalus was a Roman senator, who was active during the middle of the first century AD.
He was consul for the year 68 as the colleague of Silius Italicus[1] and a noted Roman orator praised by Quintilian.
[2][3] Hailing from Ariminum, Trachalus is thought to possibly be a descendant of the equites Gaius Galerius, praefectus or governor of Egypt (AD 16–23).
[5] An inscription from Mediolanum (modern Milan), now lost, attests that Trachalus had been co-opted into the Septemviri epulones, one of the four most prestigious ancient Roman priesthoods.
[7] With the suicide of Otho and the advent of his rival Vitellius to Rome and imperial power, Trachalus' life was in danger.