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.

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.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silva and Pollio ( or, less frequently, year 834 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus ( or, less frequently, year 776 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio ( or, less frequently, year 919 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calvinus and Pollio ( or, less frequently, year 714 Ab urbe condita ).

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.

The work was epitomized by the author himself, and later by Asinius Pollio of Tralles ( perhaps a freedman of the famous Gaius Asinius Pollio ).

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.

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

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.

Virgil's eighth eclogue was addressed to Pollio while he was engaged in this campaign.

There was a magnificent art collection attached to this library, according to Paul Zanker's book The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Pollio loved Helenistic art at its most imaginative, even including the rather extravagant group known as the Farnese Bull, etc.

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.

Married to Quinctia, daughter of Lucius Quinctius, who was executed in 43 BC, Pollio is also notable as the father of Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, the second husband of Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus's partner, second-in-command and second son-in-law.

A second collection was compiled by one Pollio ; it has been lost, but some fragments survive in quotations by later writers.

* 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.

Corbulo himself was forced to commit suicide, while Annius Vicinianus and his brother Annius Pollio, were executed in the ensueing purges.

* Pollio, for bass, choir and orchestra, text after Virgil

* Gaius Asinius Pollio ( consul 40 BC ), historian and friend of Virgil and Horace

* Vedius Pollio, equestrian friend of Augustus

* Vedius Pollio ( c. 15 BC ), equestrian friend of Augustus

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

In the same year Pollio entered upon his consulship, which had been promised him in 43 BC.

In 31 BC Octavian asked him to take part in the Battle of Actium against Antony, but Pollio, remembering kindnesses Antony had shown him, remained neutral.

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

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 Roman architectural practice, capitals are briefly treated in their proper context among the detailing proper to each of the " Orders ", in the only complete architectural textbook to have survived from classical times, the Ten Books on Architecture, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, better known just as Vitruvius, dedicated to the emperor Augustus.

A Propempticon Pollionis, a send-off to Asinius Pollio, is also attributed to him.

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

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

During his lifetime he published two works: The Elements of Architecture ( 1624 ), which is a free translation of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, executed during his time in Venice ; and a Latin prose address to the king on his return from Scotland ( 1633 ).

* 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 ).

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

Livia Soprano ( née Pollio ), played by Nancy Marchand, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

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

Lea appeared in the film " Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido ", starring, produced, and directed by Silvio Pollio, including Lea, John Cassini, Terry Chen, and Michael Eklund

It was imported from Rhodes, as part of the incredible collection of artwork and sculpture owned by Asinius Pollio, a Roman politician who lived during the years between the Republic and the Principate.

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

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.

Pollio, swayed by Rhamistus ' bribery, induced the Roman soldiers to threaten capitulation of the garrison.