Naevius
8. Naevius Pollio, a Roman citizen, who was stated by Cicero to have been a foot taller than the tallest man that ever lived. This statement of Cicero, which is quoted by Columella (3.8.2), was doubtless contained in his work entitled Admiranda. Pliny also speaks (H. N. 7.16) of the great height of this Naevius Pollio, but says that the annals did not specify what his height was.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.