Marcus Asinius Marcellus was the name of two men of the Asinii.
Marcus Asinius Marcellus, the Elder
Marcus Asinius Marcellus was consul in 54 as the colleague of Manius Acilius Aviola;Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for the Reign of Claudius", Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 409, 425 it was the same year the Emperor Claudius died. According to Paul von Rohden, Marcellus was the son of Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25, and the paternal grandson of Vipsania Agrippina, although he admits to the slight chance Marcellus was a grandson of Asinia and Marcus Claudius Marcellus."Asinius (18)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, II,2 (1896), col. 1588
Marcellus was a Senator active in the reigns of the emperors Claudius and Nero. In the year 60 Marcellus was caught up in a scandal involving a relative of a Praetor who forged his will. The associates in the scandal were disgraced and punished. Although Marcellus was also disgraced and his accomplices executed, he escaped punishment because the Emperor Nero intervened--reportedly because he was "great-grandson of Asinius Pollio and bore a character far from contemptible."Tacitus, Annals, XIV.40
Marcus Asinius Marcellus, the Younger The younger Marcus Asinius Marcellus was a consul ordinarius in 104 as the colleague of Sextus Attius Suburanus Aemilianus,Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 467 and son or grandson of the consul of 54."Asinius (19)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, II.2 (1896), col. 1588 Edmund Groag suggested he is identical to the homonymous man mentioned as a member of the College of Pontifices around AD 101/102."Asinius (19)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, S.1 (1903), col. 152 Nothing more is known of him.
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