Asinius Pollio
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Pollio · my Pollio
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman statesman and writer whose rugged prose style is contrasted with Cicero's.
Name Asinius Pollio;
But, on the contrary, the style of Asinius Pollio is rugged and leaping, and ready to leave you where you least expect.
On Anger
Roman statesman who took in Timagenes after his fall from imperial favor and dialogued with Caesar about him.
Afterwards Timagenes grew old in the household of Asinius Pollio and was sought after by the whole city.
" For Pollio had at one time been angry with Timagenes, and had had no other cause for ceasing than that Caesar had begun.
He recited the histories he had written afterwards, and the books containing the deeds of Caesar Augustus he put into the fire and burned;
On Tranquillity of Mind
Great orator who let no business detain him beyond the tenth hour, refusing to read letters after that time to protect his rest.
Such a man we remember Asinius Pollio to have been, the great orator, whom no business detained beyond the tenth hour;