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50 BC (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
was now supported by the powerful influence of the former, and was accordingly acquitted. It can scarcely be inferred from this accusation that Pollio was in favour of the republican party; he probably only wished to attract attention, and obtain celebrity by his bold attack against one of the creatures of the triumvirs. At all events, he espoused Caesar's party, when a rupture at length took place between Caesar and Pompey, and repaired to Caesar in Cisalpine Gaul probably in the course of B. C. 50. He accompanied Caesar in his passage across the Rubicon at the beginning of B. C. 49, on which occasion he is mentioned in a manner that would indicate that he was one of Caesar's intimate friends (Plut. Cces. 32), and was a witness of his triumphal progress through the towns of Italy. After Caesar had obtained possession of Italy Pollio was sent, under the command of Curio, to drive M. Cato out of Sicily, and from thence crossed over with Curio into Africa. After the unfortunate battle, i
54 BC (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
son of the Herius Asinius, who commanded this people in the Marsic war. We learn from the Fasti Capitolini, and from inscriptions, that his father's name was Cneius. Pollio was born at Rome in B. C. 76 according to Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.), and he had consequently frequent opportunities of hearing in his youth Cicero, Caesar, Hortensius, and the other great orators of the age. He was early fired with the ambition of treading in the footsteps of these illustrious men, and accordingly in B. C. 54, when he was only twenty-two years of age, he came forward as the accuser of C. Cato, on account of the disturbances which the latter had caused in B. C. 56, when he was tribune of the plebs. Cato was defended by C. Licinius Calvus and M. Scaurus; but as the illegal acts of which he was accused, had been performed to favour the election of Pompey and Crassus to the consulship, he was now supported by the powerful influence of the former, and was accordingly acquitted. It can scarcely be inf
56 BC (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
Cneius. Pollio was born at Rome in B. C. 76 according to Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.), and he had consequently frequent opportunities of hearing in his youth Cicero, Caesar, Hortensius, and the other great orators of the age. He was early fired with the ambition of treading in the footsteps of these illustrious men, and accordingly in B. C. 54, when he was only twenty-two years of age, he came forward as the accuser of C. Cato, on account of the disturbances which the latter had caused in B. C. 56, when he was tribune of the plebs. Cato was defended by C. Licinius Calvus and M. Scaurus; but as the illegal acts of which he was accused, had been performed to favour the election of Pompey and Crassus to the consulship, he was now supported by the powerful influence of the former, and was accordingly acquitted. It can scarcely be inferred from this accusation that Pollio was in favour of the republican party; he probably only wished to attract attention, and obtain celebrity by his bold
60 BC (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
s--his diligentia--his diligentia-forms an especial subject of praise with Quintilian. (Comp. in general Quint. Inst. 10.1.113, 10.2.25, 12.11.28; Senec. Control. iv. Praef. p. 441, Suas. vi. p. 50; Senec. Ep. 100; Auct. Dial. de Orat. 17, 21, 25.) Meyer has collected the titles of eleven of his orations. (Orator. Roman. Fragm. p. 491, &c.) As an historian Pollio was celebrated for his history of the civil wars in seventeen books. It commenced with the consulship of Metellus and Afranius, B. C. 60, in which year the first triumvirate was formed, and appears to have come down to the time when Augustus obtained the undisputed supremacy of the Roman world. It has been erroneously supposed by some modern writers from a passage in Plutarch (Plut. Caes. 46), that this work was written in Greek. Pollio was a contemporary of the whole period embraced in his history, and was an eye-witness of many of the important events which he describes. His work was thus one of great value, and is cited b
76 BC (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
Po'llio, Asi'nius 1. C. Asinius Pollio, a distinguished orator, poet and historian of the Augustan age. He was descended from a family of the Marrucini, and he may have been a grandson of the Herius Asinius, who commanded this people in the Marsic war. We learn from the Fasti Capitolini, and from inscriptions, that his father's name was Cneius. Pollio was born at Rome in B. C. 76 according to Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.), and he had consequently frequent opportunities of hearing in his youth Cicero, Caesar, Hortensius, and the other great orators of the age. He was early fired with the ambition of treading in the footsteps of these illustrious men, and accordingly in B. C. 54, when he was only twenty-two years of age, he came forward as the accuser of C. Cato, on account of the disturbances which the latter had caused in B. C. 56, when he was tribune of the plebs. Cato was defended by C. Licinius Calvus and M. Scaurus; but as the illegal acts of which he was accused, had been perform
25 AD (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
in Livy (Quint. Inst. 1.5.56, 8.1.3), respecting which some remarks are made in the life of Livy. [Vol. II. p. 795.] Pollio had a son, C. Asinius Gallus Saloninus, who is spoken of elsewhere. [GALLUS, No. 2.] Asinius Gallus married Vipsania, the daughter of Agrippa and Pomponia, the former wife of Tiberius, by whom he had several children: namely, 1. Asinius Saloninus. (Tac. Ann. 3.75 ) 2. Asinius Gallus. [GALLUS, No. 3.] 3. Asinius Pollio, spoken of below [No. 2], Asinius Agrippa, consul A. D. 25 [AGRIPPA, p. 77a], Asinius Celer. [CELER.] (Lipsius, ad Tac. Ann. 3.75.) (The following are the most important authorities for the life of Pollio, in addition to those which have been cited above: Cic. Fam. 9.25, 10.31, 11.9, ad Att. 12.2, 38, 39, 13.20; Appian, App. BC 2.40, 45, 82, 3.46, 74, 97, 4.12, 27, 5.20-23, 50, 64; Vell. 2.63, 76, 86; D. C. 45.10, 48.15, 41; and among modern writers, Eckhard, Commentatio de C. Asimo, iniquo optimorum Latinorum auctorum censore, Jen. 1793, and esp
4 AD (search for this): entry pollio-asinius-bio-1
erature. He still continued however to exercise his oratorical powers, and maintained his reputation for eloquence by his speeches both in the senate and the courts of justice. When the war broke out between Octavian and Antony, the ; former asked Pollio to accompany him in the campaign but he declined on account of his former friendship with Antony, and Octavian admitted the validity of his excuse. He lived to see the supremacy of Augustus fully established, and died at his Tusculan villa, A. D. 4, in the eightieth year of his age, preserving to the last the full enjoyment of his health and of all his faculties. (V. Max. 8.13.4.) Asiniius Pollio deserves a distinguished place in the history of Roman literature, not so much on account of his works, as of the encouragement which he gave to literature. He was not only a patron of Virgil, Horace (see Carm. 2.1), and other great poets and writers, but he has the honour of having been the first person to establish a public library at Rom
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