person
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Pollio
Gaius Asinius Pollio (76 BC–AD 4), soldier, statesman, orator and patron of Virgil; consul in 40 BC, the year hailed in Eclogue 4. Praised as patron of the poet's Muse in Eclogue 3.
Reading notes
- The Eclogues §3.84 Pollio
Gaius Asinius Pollio (76 BC–AD 4), soldier, statesman, orator and patron of Virgil; consul in 40 BC, the year hailed in Eclogue 4. Praised as patron of the poet's Muse in Eclogue 3.