Gaius Asinius Pollio
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Gaius Asinius Pollio may refer to:
- Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch...
, historian and friend of Virgil and Horace - Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul AD 23)Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul AD 23)Gaius Asinius Pollio, son of Gaius Asinius Gallus and Vipsania Agrippina, was a Roman politician.He was consul in AD 23 alongside Gaius Antistius Vetus. We know from his coins he was proconsul of Asia. Through his mother he was the half-brother of the younger Drusus...
, his grandson - For others with the name Asinius, see Asinia (gens)Asinia (gens)The gens Asinia was a plebeian family at Rome, which rose to prominence during the 1st century BC. The first person of the name of Asinius, who occurs in history, is Herius Asinius, in the Marsic War, 90 BC.-Origin of the gens:...
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