Gaius Asinius Pollio

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Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4)^[1] was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace and poems to him were dedicated by both men.^[2]