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In 54 BC he impeached unsuccessfully Gaius Porcius Cato , who in his tribunate ( 56 BC) had acted as the tool of the triumvirs. In the civil war between Caesar and Pompey Pollio sided with Caesar, was present at the battle of PharsalusThe Battle of Pharsalus occurred in Pharsalus—in Thessaly, northern Greece. Gaius Julius Caesar defeated Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and the Senatorial forces at the battle of Pharsalus on August 9, 48 BC and solidified his control over the Mediterran ( 48 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years: 53 BC 52 BC 51 BC 50 BC 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC Events July 10 Roman Civil War: Battle of Dyrrha), and commanded against Sextus PompeiusSextus Pompeius Magnus Pius in English Sextus Pompey was a Roman general from the late Republic ( 1st century BC). He was the last focus of opposition to the second triumvirate. Sextus Pompeius was the youngest son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Mag in Spain, where he was at the time of Caesar's assassination.
He subsequently threw in his lot with Marcus Antonius. In the division of the provinces, GaulGallia (in English Gaul is the Latin name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. In English the word Gaul commonly ref fell to Antony, who entrusted Pollio with the administration of Gallia Transpadana (the part of Cisalpine GaulProvince of the Roman Republic, in modern-day northern Italy. It was Rome's third province (after Sicily and Corsica), and was merged into Italia in 42 BC, as part of Octavian's 'Italicisation' program during the Second Triumvirate. Julius Caesar used Gal between the Po and the AlpsThe Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria in the east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany, through to France in the west. The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mon). In superintending the distribution of the Mantuan territory amongst the veterans, he used his influence to save from confiscation the property of the poet Virgil.
In 40 BC he helped to arrange the peace of Brundisium by which Octavian (Augustus) and Antonius were for a time reconciled. In the same year Pollio entered upon his consulship, which had been promised him in 43 BC. It was at this time that Virgil addressed the famous fourth eclogue to him.
The following year Pollio conducted a successful campaign against the Parthini , an Illyrian people who adhered to Marcus Junius Brutus, and celebrated a triumph on October 25. The eighth eclogue of Virgil was addressed to Pollio while engaged in this campaign.
From the spoils of the war he constructed the first public library at Rome, in the Atrium Libertatis, also erected by him ( Pliny, Nat. hist. xxxv. 10), which he adorned with statues of the most celebrated heroes.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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