Trebellius Pollio
one of the six " Scriptores Historiae Augustae" [see CAPITOLINUS].
Works
His name is prefixed to the biographies of, 1. The two Valeriani, father and son 2. The Gallieni 3. The thirty tyrants 4. Claudius the last-named piece being addressed to Constantine.
He flourished as we have seen above under Constantine, and was anterior to Vopiscus.
We learn from Vopiscus that the lives written by Trebellius Pollio commenced with Philippus and extended down to Claudius. Of these, all as far as the Valeriani, regarding whom but a short fragment remains, have been lost, thus accounting for the gap in the series which we noticed under CAPITOLINUS.
opiscus does not give Pollio a very high character as an historian, for he accuses him ( Aurelian. 100.2) of having recorded many things meagrely and many things carelessly, but we have no reason to form very high expectations, for he tells us himself, at the close of his book on the Thirty Tyrants, that he did not write but dictated these memoirs, and with such rapidity that he could not draw his breath.
Editions
For editions, translations, &c. see CAPITOLINUS.
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.