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Pollio, Caius Asinius

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Orator, historian, and poet, born at Rome; sided with Cæsar against Pompey, and after the death of the former with Antony; was a patron of letters and the friend of Virgil and Horace, both of whom dedicated poems to him; he was the first to establish a public library in Rome (76 B.C. to A.D. 4).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pollio, Caius Asinius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pollio-caius-asinius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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