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* In the Tyranni Triginta, the author ' Trebellius Pollio ' sets out to chronicle ' the 30 usurpers who arose in the years when the Empire was ruled by Gallienus and Valerian ' ( I, 1 ).

Cyriades stands first in the list of the Thirty Tyrants enumerated by the Historia Augusta ( writing under the name of Trebellius Pollio, from whose brief, indistinct, and apparently inaccurate narrative we gather that, after having robbed his father, whose old age he had embittered by dissipation and vice, he fled to the Persians, stimulated Shapur I to invade the Roman provinces, and, having assumed the purple together with the title of Augustus, was slain by his own followers after a short career of cruelty and crime.

In 46, Asinius Gallus, the grandson of Asinius Pollio, and Statilius Corvinus were exiled for a plot hatched with several of Claudius ' own freedmen.

At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

* Marcus Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus Aeserninus, son of the consul of 22 BC ; he was trained as an orator by his grandfather, Gaius Asinius Pollio.

The source actually gives 32 names but as the author, writing under the name of one Trebellius Pollio, places the last two under the reign of Maximinus Thrax and Claudius II respectively, this leaves thirty pretenders supposedly under the reign of Gallienus.

In retirement, Pollio organized literary readings where he encouraged authors to read their own work, and he was the first Roman author to recite his own works.

In 43 BC he was quaestor to Asinius Pollio in Further Spain ( Hispania Ulterior ), where he amassed a large fortune by plundering the inhabitants.

Certain astrological fragments recorded in Pliny the Elder, Censorinus, Flavius Josephus, and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio are also attributed to Berossus, but are of unknown provenance, or indeed are uncertain as to where they might fit into his History.

The six Scriptores – " Aelius Spartianus ", " Iulius Capitolinus ", " Vulcacius Gallicanus ", " Aelius Lampridius ", " Trebellius Pollio ", and " Flavius Vopiscus ( of Syracuse )" – dedicate their biographies to Diocletian, Constantine and various private persons, and so ostensibly were all writing c. the late third and early fourth century.

Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.

From Virgil's admiring references to the neoteric writers Pollio and Cinna, it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with Catullus ' neoteric circle.

Eclogue 4, addressed to Asinius Pollio, the so-called " Messianic Eclogue " uses the imagery of the golden-age in connection with the birth of a child ( who the child is has been highly contested ).

Despite his initial support of Lentulus Spinther, in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, Pollio sided with Caesar.

Pollio managed to retreat to Utica with a small force.

Pollio prevaricated between Mark Antony and Octavian as civil war between them brewed, but ultimately threw in his lot with Antony.

In the division of the provinces, Gaul fell to Antony, who entrusted Pollio with the administration of Gallia Transpadana ( the part of Cisalpine Gaul between the Po and the Alps ).

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1867 and obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi ( whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante ( 1882 ) and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention ( 1885 ).

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BCE Roman architect ’ s treatise “ De architectura ,” with various sections, dealing with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics, remained a classic text until the Renaissance.

His daughter Marcia Servilia Sorana, with whom he had a loving relationship, later married Roman Senator Annius Pollio.

Construction with logs was described by Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio in his architectural treatise De Architectura.

The Iberians invaded with a large army and forced Mithridates into the fortress of Gorneas ( Garni ), which was garrisoned by the Romans under the command of Caelius Pollio, a prefect, and Casperius, a centurion.

Titus Cornelius Celsus, Roman usurper under Gallienus, one of the Thirty Tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio.

The Visigoths are called Wesi or Wisi by Trebellius Pollio, Claudian, and Sidonius Apollinaris.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ( born c. 80 – 70 BC, died after c. 15 BC ) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC.

His first name Marcus and his cognomen Pollio are uncertain.

* Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian ( b. 65 BC ).

* Gaius Asinius Pollio and Gaius Antistius Vetus become consuls.

* Consuls: Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus and Gaius Asinius Pollio.

* Gaius Asinius Pollio, Roman orator, poet and historian ( d. AD 4 )

In 40 BC, through the mediation of Gaius Asinius Pollio, Ahenobarbus became reconciled to Mark Antony, which greatly offended Octavianus.

He tried to enlist the support of Mark Antony, but his fellow tribunes Gaius Asinius Pollio and Lucius Trebellius Fides advised Antony not to support the measure.

Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace and had poems dedicated to him by both men.

An inscription tells us his father was called Gnaeus Asinius Pollio.

Pollio moved in the literary circle of Catullus, and entered public life in 56 by supporting the policy of Lentulus Spinther.

After Pompey and the Senate had fled to Greece, Caesar sent Pollio to Sicily to relieve Cato of his command.

When Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, Pollio was leading his forces in Hispania against Sextus Pompeius, distinguishing himself early on.

Marcus Aemilus Lepidus was appointed the new governor of the province, but Pollio, while remaining loyal to Caesar's supporters, held out against him, announcing at Corduba that he would not hand over his province to anyone who did not have a commission from the Senate.

Pollio was then so severely defeated by Pompeius that he had to escape the battlefield in disguise.