Pollio, Claudius
a contemporary of the younger Pliny, who extols his merits in one of his letters (7.31).
Works
Life of Annius Bassus
Pliny states that Pollio had written the life of one of his friends: the name is corrupt in the manuscripts; the best modern editions have Annius Bassus; but some read Musonius, and therefore suppose that the Memorabilia of Musonius, which Suidas ascribes to Asinius Pollio, is the very work alluded to by Pliny. The name however of the philosopher was Musonius Rufus, and not Bassus; and the way in which he is spoken of by Pliny would lead to the conclusion that he was not the celebrated philosopher.
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.