Asinius Pollio
Family: Roman · Role: orator · First appears: Augustus 43
Life events
- Augustus abandoned the Trojan game after Asinius Pollio condemned Aeserninus's injury in the senate.(Augustus 43)
- With: Augustus Aeserninus
- “But soon afterwards he gave up the exhibition of this game, in consequence of a severe and bitter speech made in the senate by Asinius Pollio, the orator, in which he complained bitterly of the misfortune of Aeserninus, his grandson, who likewise broke his leg in the same diversion.”
- Atteius Philologus supplied Asinius Pollio with rules on the art of composition.(Grammarians 10)
- With: Atteius Philologus
- “and the other, with rules on the art of composition.”
Augustus 43
- younger kin: Aeserninus “in which he complained bitterly of the misfortune of Aeserninus, his grandson”
Grammarians 10
- friends with Atteius Philologus “He afterwards formed an intimate acquaintance with Caius Sallustius, and, on his death, with Asinius Pollio;”
- mentor: Atteius Philologus “and the other, with rules on the art of composition.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.