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1st century AD Roman general and politician
Aulus Didius Gallus was a member of the Roman Senate and general active during the 1st century AD. He held a number of offices and imperial appointments, the most important of which were governor of Britain between 52 and 57 AD, proconsul of Asia, and suffect consul in the nundinium of September to December 39 as the colleague of Domitius Afer.

According to Anthony Birley, Aulus Didius Gallus was considered a novus homo, "if not necessarily the first of his family to enter the senate." A proconsul of Cyprus, Aulus Didius Postumus, might be a close relative. His career up to 51 can be partly reconstructed from an inscription from Olympia. Didius is attested as quaestor in a senatus consultum dated to AD 19, that forbade Senators, eques, and their descendants from actively participating in gladiator games. Birley notes that if this inscription has been correctly restored, "he had the signal honour, for a new man, of being quaestor of Tiberius." After these two magistracies, Didius was proconsul of Sicily, which fell during the reign of Tiberius; "given Tiberius' practice," Birley comments, his governorship of Sicily "may have lasted more than twelve months". His later career is described by Tacitus. In 52 Didius was made governor of Britain, following the death in office of Ostorius Scapula, at a time when the situation was deteriorating as a result of a string of rebellions. The south east was securely held, but despite the defeat of Caratacus the previous year, the tribes of what is now Wales, particularly the Silures, continued to hold out. Venutius' first insurrection against Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes occurred during Didius' rule and he despatched troops under Caesius Nasica to aid her. Didius acted to quell the rebels rather than enlarge the empire during his rule, which lasted until AD 57. While Tacitus criticizes him for being reactive and defensive, Sheppard Frere argues that he was acting on instructions from Claudius who did not consider the benefits of further conquest in difficult terrain to be great enough to warrant the risk. "Provincial legates were carefully selected with an eye to what was to be required of them," Frere writes, "and will have received careful briefing on appointment; and throughout their tenure they were in close contact with Rome." Instead, Didius built roads and forts at the borders such as those at Usk to contain the native population. After five years in the post, covering the last two years of the reign of Claudius and the first three of Nero, Didius was replaced by Quintus Veranius. Quintilian tells us that, after several years of campaigning for a provincial governorship, Didius complained at the province he was offered, although whether this refers to Sicily or Britain is unknown. The orator Domitius Afer sarcastically advised him to think of his country. The tombstone of his successor, Quintus Veranius, states that he took the job "although he did not seek it", which has been interpreted as a barbed comment on Didius. Though most modern linguists dismiss this derivation, the Didius connection has remained popular throughout the centuries, appearing in Camden's Britannia (1586), The Beauties of England and Wales (1815), and the writings of Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin Williams.

Whom Didius married, or whether he had married at all, is unknown. From his name, experts believe that Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento, who was praetor in 62, is somehow related to Didius. Some, such as Edmund Groag and Mario Torelli, thought that Veiento was his son or grandson. Olli Salomies has shown that it is more likely that Veiento was adopted by Didius Gallus, at some point before Veiento became praetor. Anthony Birley mentions a "less certain" relative, Gaius Pomponius Gallus Didius Rufus, proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica in 88/89.