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Portrait of Gaius Asinius Pollio (cos. 40)

Gaius Asinius Pollio (cos. 40)

Consul in 40 BCE. His contemporary but lost history was referenced by other historians Appian and Plutarch

🏛️ Career

  1. 47 BCE
    (aged 29)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Dolabella's popular bills, proposing to abolish debts (a), and remit house-rents (b) led to dissension with his colleagues Pollio and Trebellius, and finally to the intervention of Antony as Master of Horse (c). J. Andre (REL 25 [1947] 137-139) doubts that Pollio held the tribunate.

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Liv. Per. 113; Plut. Ant. 9.1-2; Dio 42.29.1, and 32.2; cf. Cic. Att. 11.23.3; 14.21.4; Phil. 6.11; 10.22; 11.14; 13.26
      • (b) Dio 42.32.2
      • (c) Liv. Per. 113; Plut. Ant. 8-9, naming Pollio; Dio 42.29-33; 46.16.2; cf. Cic. Att. 11.10.2, and 12.4, and 16.1, and 23.3; Phil. 2.99; 6.11; 10.22; 11.14; 13.2 and 26; Auct. Bell. Alex. 65.1; Plut. Caes. 51.1
      • J. Andre, REL 25 [1947] 137-139
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    A. Pompeius Bithynicus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 47 BCE (Dictator) , 45 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

  2. 45 BCE
    (aged 31)
    Praetor

    Broughton: An ex-Praetor when in command of Farther Spain in 44 (a). See (b)

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Vell. 2.73.2; see 46, Legates
      • (b) Sternkopf, Hermes 47 (1912) 325, and 336.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    A. Pompeius Bithynicus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 47 BCE (Dictator) , 45 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

  3. 40 BCE
    (aged 36)
    Consul · Co-consuls: Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53), L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40), P. Canidius Crassus

    Broughton: After Perusia fell to Octavian Pollio retreated to Venetia where in the course of several months he won Domitius Ahenobarbus over to Antony and prepared the way for the latter to land in Italy (a). In this period may be dated his capture of Salona in Dalmatia (b). He aided in reconciling Antony and Octavian at Brundisium (c), and when both Consuls abdicated shortly afterwards received command of Macedonia from Antony (d; see 39, Promagistrates).

    Sources (5)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 10.5159-ILS 3784; Fast. Sacerd., CIL 12.1, p. 60, no. III-ILS 9338, no. 3; Fast. Colot., Degrassi 273-275; Fast. Mag. Vic., ibid. 282, 287; Fast. Biond., ibid. 291f.; ibid. 135, 504f.; Joseph. AJ 14.389; Dio 48, Index, and 15.1, and 32.1; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Domitius, Grueber, CRRBM 2.373; CIL 6.1301-ILS 42; CIL 2.6186; and on Pollio, Verg. Ecl. 4.11-12.
      • (a) Vell. 2.76.2; App. BC 5.35, and 50, and 64; cf. Verg. Ecl. 8.6-7
      • (b) Serv. on Ecl. 3.88, and 4.1 post etiam consutatum adeptus; Serv. Dan. on Ecl. 8.12, who dates it before the peace of Brundisium; cf. Bern. Schol. on Eel. 8.6 and 13; and 4.1, Preface; Iun. Philargyr. I and II on Ecl. 4.1; and 8.13; see 39, Promagistrates, on Pollio
      • (c) App. BC 5.64
      • (d) Dio 48.32.1
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    Cn. Domitius Calvinus (cos. 53) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Balbus (cos. suff. 40) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    P. Canidius Crassus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 40 BCE (Consul)

    A. Pompeius Bithynicus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 45 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 47 BCE (Dictator) , 45 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.