Pollio, Romilius
a Roman who attained the age of upwards of a hundred years. When asked by the emperor Augustus how he had preserved such vigour of mind and body, he replied "intus mulso, foris oleo." (Plin. Nat. 22.24. s. 53.)
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.