Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 23)

Gaius Asinius Pollio ( — ) was a Roman senator and orator active during the Principate. He was ordinary consul for 23 with Gaius Antistius Vetus as his colleague.Tacitus, Annals IV.1Pliny the Elder, Natural History 33.8 He was the oldest son of Gaius Asinius Gallus; his brother was Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25.Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 135 Pollio's mother was Vipsania Agrippina.Tacitus, Annals, I.12 Through her, he was the half-brother of the younger Drusus.William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870,

We know from his coins Pollio was proconsular governor of Asia.Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), p. 196 In 45, Pollio was exiled as an accuser of a conspiracy and later was put to death on orders from Empress Valeria Messalina.

The Asinia Pollionis filia mentioned on an inscription from Tusculum may have been his daughter. Pollio was perhaps the father (or brother) of Gaius Asinius Placentinus who lived around the middle of the 1st century.I.G. II2, 4172

See also Gaius Asinius Pollio, his grandfather, the 1st-century BC consul and historian

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References William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Kindle Edition; ASIN: B00LSQHSGY