person
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Pollio
also: Asinius Pollio, C. Asinius Pollio, Pollio, Pollionis
Gaius Asinius Pollio, Caesarian governor of Further Spain in 43 BC and a correspondent of Cicero. He later became a soldier, orator, historian of the civil wars, and literary patron.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.38 §2 Asinius Pollio has written to me about that impure kinsman of ours
C. Asinius Pollio, the soldier, orator, and historian, was at this date a Caesarian officer; here he relays unwelcome news about a disreputable relative of Cicero's. The veiled "impure kinsman" is unnamed in the letter and almost certainly Cicero's nephew Quintus, whose conduct toward Caesar had alarmed the family.
- Ad Atticum 13.21 §3 the gossip or to Pollio
Probably C. Asinius Pollio, then with Caesar's forces in Spain; Cicero affects to care more about a fine point of philosophical vocabulary than about current news. Identification flagged as a judgment bind.
- Ad Atticum 14.5 §1 I meant Gaius Asinius --- but a [Greek: mnemonikon hamartema], a slip of memory
Gaius Asinius Pollio, the Caesarian commander then in Further Spain (and later the historian and patron); Cicero, correcting himself in Greek (mnemonikon hamartema, "a memory-slip"), had first named the wrong man.
- Ad Familiares 1.6 §1 from Pollio
C. Asinius Pollio, the future soldier, orator, and historian, then a young man in his twenties; this is his earliest appearance in the Ciceronian correspondence, as a courier-witness who had 'presided over' the Egyptian business at Rome.