Lucius Caninius Gallus (consul 2 BC)

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Lucius Caninius Gallus was a Roman senator who served as suffect consul in 2 BC, briefly sharing the year with Emperor Augustus. He came from the plebeian Caninia gens and was from Tusculum. A family inscription about his daughter Caninia Galla suggests he was the son (not the grandson) of the consul of 37 BC, Lucius Caninius Gallus.

Earlier in his career he was triumvir monetalis in 12 BC; his praetorial life is not known, though he may have been an aedile at Tusculum at some point.

In 2 BC he became suffect consul, replacing Marcus Plautius Silvanus, with Augustus serving as his colleague for part of the year. He co-authored the Lex Fufia Caninia, with Gaius Fufius Geminus, which limited the freeing of slaves.

Around AD 9–10 he was proconsular governor of Africa. Under Emperor Tiberius he led the curatores alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis, officials responsible for the Tiber’s banks and the city’s sewers. He was a member of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and later joined the Arval Brethren, becoming magister of that college by AD 36.

In AD 32 he asked the Senate to decide on adding a new collection of Sibylline oracles to the official books; the Senate agreed, but Tiberius rebuked him for acting hastily, and the matter was referred back to the college. He died sometime after AD 36 and left a daughter, Caninia Galla.