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.^[1][2] He was the oldest son of Gaius Asinius Gallus; his brother was Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25.^[3] Pollio's mother was Vipsania Agrippina.^[4] Through her, he was the half-brother of the younger Drusus.^[5]

Statue of Gaius Asinius Pollio

We know from his coins Pollio was proconsular governor of Asia.^[6] 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.^[7] Pollio was perhaps the father (or brother) of Gaius Asinius Placentinus who lived around the middle of the 1st century.^[8]

See also

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

Notes

1. Tacitus, Annals IV.1
2. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 33.8
3. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 135
4. Tacitus, Annals, I.12
5. William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, Vol. 3 p. 438 Archived 2006-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
6. Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), p. 196
7. CIL XIV, 2599
8. I.G. II², 4172

References

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

Political offices
Preceded by Decimus Haterius Agrippa, and Gaius Sulpicius Galba	Consul of the Roman Empire 23 with Gaius Antistius Vetus, followed by Gaius Stertinius Maximus	Succeeded by Servius Cornelius Cethegus, and Lucius Visellius Varro