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Asinia

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Asinia was a noblewoman of ancient Rome who was the daughter of Gaius Asinius Pollio, who was Roman consul 40 BCE. She married Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus, consul in 22 BCE, and had at least one son, Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus the younger, who was renowned as a promising rhetorician, having been instructed in rhetoric by his grandfather Asinius.[1][2][3][4]

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  1. ^ Seneca the Elder, Epitome Controversiae hb. iv. praef.
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annals 3.11, 14.40
  3. ^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "Octavian" 43
  4. ^ Pagán, Victoria Emma, ed. (2023). "Asinia". The Tacitus Encyclopedia. ISBN 9781119743330.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Asinia". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 385.

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