Gaius Asinius Pollio

Roman politician, historian and writer (75 BC–AD 4)

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Lived -75–4, aged 79
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    -75–4
    Aged 79
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Updated 2026-06-21

Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace; poems to him were dedicated by both men.

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