Syriacus, Vallius
a friend of Asinius Gallus, unjustly slain by Tiberius. He is frequently mentioned by the elder Seneca as a distinguished rhetorician. (D. C. 58.3; Senec. Controv. 1.9, 14, 21, 27).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.