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notwithstanding accused of taking part in Piso's conspiracy against that emperor in A. D. 63, and was in consequence banished. His wife's name was Servilia. (Tac. Ann. vi. 9, xv. 56, 71, xvi. 30.)

PO'LLIO, AʼNTIUS, one of the consules suffecti in A. D. 155 (Fasti).

PO'LLIO, ASI'NIUS. 1. C. ASINIUS POLLIO, a distinguished orator, poet and historian of the Augustan age. He was descended from a family of the Marrucini, and he may have been a grandson of the Herius Asinius, who commanded this people in the Marsic war. We learn from the Fasti Capitolini, and from inscriptions, that his father's name was Cneius. Pollio was born at Rome in B. C. 76 according to Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.), and he had consequently frequent opportunities of hearing in his youth Cicero, Caesar, Hortensius, and the other great orators of the age. He was early fired with the ambition of treading in the footsteps of these illustrious men, and accordingly in B. c. 54, when he was only twenty-two years of age, he came forward as the accuser of C. Cato, on account of the disturbances which the latter had caused in B. c. 56, when he was tribune of the plebs. Cato was defended by C. Licinius Calvus and M. Scaurus; but as the illegal acts of which he was accused, had been performed to favour the election of Pompey and Crassus to the consulship, he was now supported by the powerful influence of the former, and was accordingly acquitted. It can scarcely be inferred from this accusation that Pollio was in favour of the republican party; he probably only wished to attract attention, and obtain celebrity by his hold attack against one of the creatures of the triumvirs. At all events, he espoused Caesar's party, when a rupture at length took place between Caesar and Pompey, and repaired to Caesar in Cisalpine Gaul probably in the course of B. C. 50. He accompanied Caesar in his passage across the Rubicon at the beginning of B. c. 49, on which occasion he is mentioned in a manner that would indicate that he was one of Caesar's intimate friends (Plut. Caes. 32), and was a witness of his triumphal progress through the towns of Italy. After Caesar had obtained possession of Italy Pollio was sent, under the command of Curio, to drive M. Cato out of Sicily, and from thence crossed over with Curio into Africa. After the unfortunate battle, in which Curio was defeated by King Juba, and in which he lost his life, Pollio hastened back to the camp at Utica, collected the remains of the army, and with difficulty made his escape by sea. He now joined Caesar, accompanied him in his campaign against Pompey in Greece, and was present at the battle of Pharsalia, B. C. 48, which he could therefore describe as an eye-witness. After the battle of Pharsalia he returned to Rome, and was probably tribune of the plebs in B. c. 47, since he is mentioned in that year as one of the opponents of the tribune Dolabella, who was endeavouring to carry a measure for the abolition of all debts (Plut. Anton. 9), and as a private person he could not have offered any open resistance to a tribune. In the following year, B. c. 46, Pollio fought under Caesar against the Pompeian party in Africa, and he related in his history how he and Caesar on one occasion had driven back the enemy when their troops were surprised (Plut. Caes. 52). He also accompanied

Caesar next year, B. c. 45, in his campaign in Spain, and on his return to Rome must have been one of the fourteen praetors, whom Caesar appointed in the course of this year, since we find him called praetorius in the history of B. c. 44. (Vell. Pat. ii. 73.) He did not, however, remain long in Rome, for Caesar sent him again into Spain, with the command of the Further Province, in order to prosecute the war against Sex. Pompey, who had again collected a considerable force since the battle of Munda. He was in his province at the time of Caesar's death on the 15th of March, B. C. 44, and his campaign against Sextus is described by his panegyrist Velleius Paterculus (. c.) as most glorious; but he was, in fact, defeated, and nearly lost his life in the battle (Dion Cass. xlv. 10). He would probably have been unable to maintain his position in his province, if a peace had not been concluded after Caesar's death between Rome and Sextus. This was brought about by the mediation of Antony and Lepidus; Sextus quitted Spain, but Pollio continued quietly in his province.

On the breaking out of the war between Antony and the senate in B. c. 43, Pollio was strongly pressed to assist the latter with troops. In his letters to Cicero, three of which have come down to us (ad Fam. x. 31-33), he expresses great devotion to the cause of the senate, but alleges various reasons why it is impossible for him to comply with their request. Like most of Caesar's other friends, he probably did not in heart wish success to the senatorial party, but at the same time would not commit himself to Antony. Even when the latter was joined by Lepidus, he still hesitated to declare in their favour; but when Octavian espoused their side, and compelled the senate in the month of August to repeal the sentence of outlawry which had been pronounced against them, Pollio at length joined them with three legions, and persuaded L. Plancus in Gaul to follow his example. Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus then formed the triumvirate, and determined who should be consuls for the next five years. Pollio was nominated for B. c. 40, but was in return obliged to consent to the proscription of his father-in-law, L. Quintius.

In the division of the provinces among the triumvirs, Antony received the Gauls with the exception of the Narbonese. The administration of the Transpadane Gaul was committed to Pollio by Antony, and he had accordingly the difficult task of settling the veterans in the lands which had been assigned to them in this province. It was upon this occasion that he saved the property of the poet Virgil at Mantua from confiscation, whom he took under his protection from his love of literature. In the Perusinian war which was carried on by Fulvia and L. Antonius against Octavian in B. c. 41 and 40, Pollio, like the other legates of Antony, took little part, as he did not know the views and wishes of his commander. Octavian compelled him to resign the province to Alfenus Varus; and as Antony, the triumvir, was now expected from Greece, Pollio exerted himself to keep possession of the sea-coast in order to secure his landing, since an open rupture between Octavian and Antony seemed now almost inevitable. He was fortunate in securing the co-operation of Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was cruising in the Ionian sea with a squadron of rhips which had

formed part of the fleet of Brutus and Cassius. The threatened war, however, did not break out; and a reconciliation took place at Brundusium between Octavian and Antony in B. c. 40, at which Pollio acted the part of mediator. Pollio returned to Rome with the triumvirs, and now became consul with Cn. Domitius Calvinus, according to the promise made him three years before. It was during his consulship that Virgil addressed to him his fourth Eclogue.

In the following year, B. c. 39, Antony went to Greece, and sent Pollio with a part of his army to fight against the Parthini, an Illyrian people, who had espoused the side of Brutus and Cassius. Pollio was successful in his expedition; he defeated the Parthini and took the Dalmatian town of Salonae; and in consequence of his success obtained the honour of a triumph on the 25th of October in this year. He gave his son Asinius Gallus the agnomen of Saloninus after the town which he had taken. It was during his Illyrian campaign that Virgil addressed to him the eighth Eclogue (see especially 11. 6, 7, 12).

From this time Pollio withdrew altogether from political life, and devoted himself to the study of literature. He still continued however to exercise his oratorical powers, and maintained his reputation for eloquence by his speeches both in the senate and the courts of justice. When the war broke out between Octavian and Antony, the former asked Pollio to accompany him in the campaign; but he declined on account of his former friendship with Antony, and Octavian admitted the validity of his excuse. He lived to see the supremacy of Augustus fully established, and died at his Tusculan villa, A. D. 4, in the eightieth year of his age, preserving to the last the full enjoyment of his health and of all his faculties. (Val. Max. viii. 13. § 4.)

Asinius Pollio deserves a distinguished place in the history of Roman literature, not so much on account of his works, as of the encouragement which he gave to literature. He was not only a patron of Virgil, Horace (see Carm. ii. 1), and other great poets and writers, but he has the honour of having been the first person to establish a public library at Rome, upon which he expended the money he had obtained in his Illyrian campaign. (Plin. H. N. vii. 3, xxxv. 2.) He also introduced the practice of which Martial and other later writers so frequently complain, of reading all his works before a large circle of friends and critics, in order to obtain their judgment and opinion before making them public. (Senec. Controv. iv. Praef. p. 441.) None of Pollio's own works have come down to us, but they possessed sufficient merit to lead his contemporaries and successors to class his name with those of Cicero, Virgil and Sallust, as an orator, a poet and an historian. It was however as an orator that he possessed the greatest reputation. We have already seen that he distinguished himself when he was only twenty-two by his speech against C. Cato: Catullus describes him in his youth (Carm. xii. 9) as

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and we have also the more impartial testimony of Quintilian, the two Senecas and the author of the Dialogue on Orators to the greatness of his oratorical powers. Belonging as he did both to the Ciceronian and the Augustan age, the orations of Pollio partook somewhat of the character of each period. They possessed the fertility of invention and the power of thought of the earlier period, but at the same time somewhat of the artificial and elaborate rhetoric which began to characterise the style of the empire. There was an excessive care bestowed upon the composition, and at the same time a fondness for ancient words and expressions, which often obscured the meaning of his speeches, and detracted much from the pleasure of his hearers and readers. Hence the author of the Dialogue on Orators (c. 21) speaks of him as durus et siccus, and Quintilian says (x. 1. §113) that so far is he from possessing the brilliant and pleasing style of Cicero (nitor et jucunditas Ciceronis), that he might appear to belong to the age preceding that of the great orator. We may infer that there was a degree of pedantry and an affectation of learning in his speeches; and it was probably the same desire of exhibiting his reading, which led him to make frequent quotations from Ennius, Accius, Pacuvius, and the other ancient poets. (Quintil. i. 8. § 11, ix. 4. § 76.) The care however with which he composed his speeches-his diligentia-forms an especial subject of praise with Quintilian. (Comp. in general Quintil. x. 1. § 113, x. 2. § 25, xii. 11. § 28; Senec. Controv. iv. Praef. p. 441, Suas. vi. p. 50; Senec. Ep. 100; Auct. Dial. de Orat. 17, 21, 25.) Meyer has collected the titles of eleven of his orations. (Orator. Roman. Fragm. p. 491, &c.)

As an historian Pollio was celebrated for his history of the civil wars in seventeen books. It commenced with the consulship of Metellus and Afranius, B. c. 60, in which year the first triumvirate was formed, and appears to have come down to the time when Augustus obtained the undisputed supremacy of the Roman world. It has been erroneously supposed by some modern writers from a passage in Plutarch (Caes. 46), that this work was written in Greek. Pollio was a contemporary of the whole period embraced in his history, and was an eye-witness of many of the important events which he describes. His work was thus one of great value, and is cited by subsequent writers in terms of the highest commendation. It appears to have been rich in anecdotes about Caesar, but the judgment which he passed upon Cicero appeared to the elder Seneca unjustly severe. Pollio was assisted to some extent in the composition of the work by the grammarian Atteius Philologus, who drew up for his use certain rules which might be useful to him in writing. (Suid. s. v. 'Aσívvios; Senec. Suas. vi. vii.; Hor. Carm. ii. 1; Suet. Caes. 30, De Ill. Gram. 10; Plut. Caes. 46; Tac. Ann. iv. 34; Appian, B. C. ii. 82; Val. Max. viii. 13. ext. 4.)

As a poet Pollio was best known for his tragedies, which are spoken of in high terms by Virgil and Horace, but which probably did not possess any great merit, as they are hardly mentioned by subsequent writers, and only one fragment of them

and Horace speaks of him in the full maturity of is preserved by the grammarians. (Virg. Ed. iii. his powers (Carm. ii. 1. 13) as

86, viii. 10; Hor. Carm. i. 1. 9, Sut. i. 10. 42;

Charis. i. p. 56, ed. Lind.) The words of Virgil (Ecl. iii. 86)," Pollio et ipse facit nova carmina," probably refer to tragedies of a new kind, namely, such as were not borrowed from the Greek, but contained subjects entirely new, taken from Roman story. (Welcker, Die Griechischen Tragödien, p. 1421, &c.)

Pollio also enjoyed great reputation as a critic, but he is chiefly known in this capacity for the severe judgment which he passed upon his great contemporaries. Thus he pointed out many mistakes in the speeches of Cicero (Quintil. xii. 1. § 22), censured the Commentaries of Caesar for their want of historical fidelity, and found fault with Sallust for affectation in the use of antiquated words and expressions (Suet. de Ill. Gram. 10), a fault with which Pollio himself is charged by other writers. He also complained of a certain Patavinity in Livy (Quintil. i. 5. § 56, viii. 1. §3), respecting which some remarks are made in the life of Livy. [Vol. II. p. 795.]

Pollio had a son, C. Asinius Gallus Saloninus, who is spoken of elsewhere. [GALLUS, No. 2.] Asinius Gallus married Vipsania, the daughter of Agrippa and Pomponia, the former wife of Tiberius, by whom he had several children: namely, 1. Asinius Saloninus. (Tac. Ann. iii. 75) 2. Asinius Gallus. [GALLUS, No. 3.] 3. Asinius Pollio, spoken of below [No. 2], Asinius Agrippa, consul A. D. 25 [AGRIPPA, p. 77, a], Asinius Celer. [CELER.] (Lipsius, ad Tac. Ann. iii. 75.)

(The following are the most important authorities for the life of Pollio, in addition to those which have been cited above: Cic. ad Fam. ix. 25, x. 31, xi. 9, ad Att. xii. 2, 38, 39, xiii. 20; Appian, B. C. ii. 40, 45, 82, iii. 46, 74, 97, iv. 12, 27, v. 20-23, 50, 64; Vell. Pat. ii. 63, 76, 86; Dion Cass. xlv. 10, xlviii. 15, 41; and among modern writers, Eckhard, Commentatio de C. Asinio, iniquo optimorum Latinorum auctorum censore, Jen. 1793, and especially Thorbecke, Commentatio de C. Asinii Pollionis Vita et Studiis, Lugd. Batav. 1820.)

2. C. ASINIUS POLLIO, grandson of the preceding, and son of C. Asinius Gallus Saloninus and of Vipsania, the daughter of Agrippa, was consul A. D. 23 with C. Antistius Vetus. (Tac. Ann. iv. 1; Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 1. s. 8.) We learn from coins, a specimen of which is annexed, that he was also proconsul of Asia. The obverse represents Drusus, the son of the emperor Tiberius and Germanicus seated on a curule chair, with the legend ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΣ ΝΕΟΙ ΘΕΟΙ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ ; the reverse a crown of oak leaves, with the legend TAIN ΑΣΙΝΙΩ ΠΟΛΛΙΩΝΙ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΩ, and within the crown ΚΟΙΝΟΥ ΑΣΙΑΣ. Drusus and Ger

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manicus are here called Philadelphi, because they were brothers by adoption ;, and there was an obvious reason why Pollio had these coins struck, inasmuch as Drusus was the half-brother of Pollio by the same mother Vipsania. (Eckhel, vol. vi. pp. 210, 211.)

3. ASINIUS POLLIO, the commander of a regiment of horse, serving under Luceius Albinus in Mauritania, was slain in A. D. 69, when the troops espoused the side of Vitellius. (Tac. Hist. ii. 59) 4. ASINIUS POLLIO VERRUCOSUS, consul A. D. 81. (Dion Cass. lxvi. 26; Fasti.)

PO'LLIO, ASI'NIUS, a native of Tralles in Asia Minor, is described by Suidas (s. v. Пwλiwv) as a sophist and philosopher, who taught at Rome at the time of Pompey the Great, and succeeded Timagenes in his school. But as Timagenes flourished B. c. 55 [TIMAGENES], we must place the date of Asinius Pollio rather later. Judging from the name of the latter, we may infer that he was a freedman of the great Asinius Pollio. Suidas ascribes to the Trallian the following works: 1. An Epitome of the Atthis of Philochorus, respecting which see PHILOCHORUS, p. 299, b. 2. Memorabilia of the philosopher Musonius (Rufus). 3. An Epitome of the Georgics of Diophanes, in two books. 4. A commentary on Aristotle's work on Animals. 5. On the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey. The second of these works however could not have been written by this Pollio, since Musonius lived in the reign of Nero: some writers ascribe it to Valerius Pollio, who lived in the reign of Hadrian, but others to Claudius Pollio, a contemporary of the younger Pliny. The work on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey may perhaps have been a translation into Greek of the history of the great Pollio on the same subject. (Vossius, de Hist. Graecis, p. 197, ed. Westermann; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 566, with the note of Harles; Clinton, F. H. vol. iii. p. 550.)

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PO'LLIO, CAE'LIUS, was commander of the Roman army in Armenia, A. D. 51, and was bribed by Rhadamistus to betray the cause of Mithridates king of Armenia, whom the Romans had placed upon the throne. Notwithstanding his corrupt conduct, he was allowed to remain in Armenia till the first year of Nero's reign, A. D. 54, when he was succeeded by Laelianus. (Tac. Ann. xii. 44, 45; Dion Cass. Ixi. 6.)

PO'LLIO, CARVI'LIUS, a Roman eques, lived in the times of the dictator Sulla, and was celebrated for several new kinds of ornamental furniture, which he invented and brought into use. (Plin. Η. Ν. ix. 11. s. 13, xxxiii. ll. s. 51.)

PO'LLIO, CLAUDIUS, a contemporary of the younger Pliny, who extols his merits in one of his letters (vii. 31). 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.

PO'LLIO, CLAUDIUS, a centurion, who put Diadumenianus to death. (Dion Cass. lxxviii. 40.)

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PO'LLIO, CLO'DIUS, a man of praetorian rank, against whom Nero wrote a poem, entitled Luscio. (Suet. Dom. 1.)

PO'LLIO, DOMITIUS, offered his daughter for a Vestal Virgin in the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. ii. 87.)

PO'LLIO, L. FUFI'DIUS, consul A. D. 166 with Q. Servilius Pudens. (Lamprid. Commod. 11; Fasti.)

PO'LLIO, HERE'NNIUS, a Roman orator, and a contemporary of the younger Pliny. (Plin. Ep. iv. 19.)

PO'LLIO, JULIUS, a tribune of the praetorian cohort, assisted Nero in poisoning Britannicus. (Tac. Ann. xiii. 15.)

PO'LLIO, ME'MMIÚS. [MEMMIUS, No. 13.]

PO'LLIO, NAE'VIUS. [NARVIUS, No. 8.] PO'LLIO, ROMI'LIUS, a Roman who at tained 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. H. N. xxii. 24. s. 53.)

PO'LLIO, RU'BRIUS, the commander of the praetorian cohorts in the reign of Claudius, was allowed a seat in the senate as often as he accompanied the emperor thither. (Dion Cass. lx. 23.) PO'LLIO, TREBE'LLIUS. [TRebellius,] PO'LLIO, VALE'RIUS, an Alexandrian philosopher, lived in the time of the emperor Hadrian, and was the father of the philosopher Diodorus. (Suidas, s. v. Пwλíwv.) [DIODORUS, literary, No. 2.]

PO'LLIO, VE'DIUS, a Roman eques and a friend of Augustus, was by birth a freedman, and has obtained a place in history on account of his riches and his cruelty. He was accustomed to feed his lampreys with human flesh, and whenever a slave displeased him, the unfortunate wretch was forthwith thrown into the pond as food for the fish. On one occasion Augustus was supping with him, when a slave had the misfortune to break a crystal goblet, aud his master immediately ordered him to be thrown to the fishes. The slave fell at the feet of Augustus, praying for mercy; the emperor interceded with his master on his behalf, but when he could not prevail upon Pollio to pardon him, he dismissed the slave of his own accord, and commanded all Pollio's crystal goblets to be broken and the fish-pond to be filled up. Pollio died B. C. 15, leaving a large part of his property to Augustus. (Dion Cass. liv. 23; Senec. de Ira, iii. 40, de Clem. i. 18; Plin. H. N. ix. 23. s. 39, 53. s. 78; Tac. Ann. i. 10, xii. 60.) This Pollio appears to be the same as the one against whom Augustus wrote fescennine verses. (Macrob. Sat. ii. 4.)

PO'LLIO, VESPA'SIUS, a native of Nursia, was thrice tribune of the soldiers and likewise praefect of the camp. His son obtained the dignity of praetor, and his daughter Vespasia Polla became the mother of the emperor Vespasian. (Suet. Vesp. 1.)

PO'LLIO, VITRA'SIUS. 1. The praefectus or governor of Egypt in the reign of Tiberius, died A. D. 32. (Dion Cass. lviii. 19.)

2. Probably the son of the preceding, was the procurator of the emperor in Egypt in the reign of Claudius. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 7. s. 11.)

3. The legatus Lugdunensis, in the reign of the

emperor Hadrian, may have been a son of No. 2 and a grandson of No. 1. (Dig. 27. tit. 1. s. 15. § 17.)

4. Lived in the reign of M. Aurelius, and was consul the second time in A. D. 176 with M. Flavius Aper. The year of his first consulship is not recorded. (Lamprid. Commod. 2; Fasti.) The Senatusconsultum Vitrasianum, of which mention is made in the Digest (40. tit. 5. s. 30. § 6), was probably passed during one of the consulships of Vitrasius Pollio. This Pollio was perhaps the great-grandson of No. 1. The Vitrasia Faustina slain by Commodus was probably his daughter. (Lamprid. Commod. 4.)

POLLIS (Пós), is first mentioned in B. C. 390 as émiσTOλEús, or second in command of the Lacedaemonian fleet (Xen. Hell. iv. 8. § 11). In B. C. 376 he was appointed navarchus or commander-in-chief of a Lacedaemonian fleet of sixty ships in order to cut off from Athens her supplies of corn. His want of success and defeat by Chabrias are related in the life of the latter [Vol. I. p. 676, a.] (Xen. Hell. v. 4. §§ 60, 61; Diod. xv. 34; Polyaen. iii. 11. § 17.) In several MSS. of the above-mentioned authors, his name is written Пóλis, but Пóλis is the preferable form.

POLLIS, an architect, who wrote on the rules of the orders of architecture, praecepta symmetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. praef. § 14.) [P.S.] POLLUTIA, slain by Nero with her father L. Vetus. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 10, 11.)

POLLUX. [DIOSCURL]

POLLUX, JULIUS ('Ïoúλios Пoλudeúкns), of Naucratis in Egypt, was a Greek sophist and grammarian. He received instruction in criticism from his father, and afterwards went to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under the sophist Adrian. He opened a private school at Athens, where he gave instruction in grammar and rhetoric, and was subsequently appointed by the emperor Commodus to the chair of rhetoric at Athens. He died during the reign of Commodus at the age of fifty-eight, leaving a young son behind him. We may therefore assign A. D. 183 as the year in which he flourished. (Suidas, s. v. Пoλvdeúкns; Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii. 12.) Philostratus praises his critical skill, but speaks unfavourably of his rhetorical powers, and implies that he gained his professor's chair from Commodus simply by his mellifluous voice. He seems to have been attacked by many of his contemporaries on account of the inferior character of his oratory, and especially by Lucian in his Pηтóρwv didáσkalos, as was supposed by the ancients and has been maintained by many modern writers (see especially C. F. Ranke, Comment, de Polluce et Luciano, Quedlinburg, 1831), though Hemsterhuis, from the natural partiality of an editor for his author, stoutly denies this supposition, and believes that Lucian intended to satirize a certain Dioscorides. It has also been conjectured that Lucian attacks Pollux in his Lexiphanes, and that he alludes to him with contempt in a passage of the De Saltatione (c. 33, p. 287, ed. Reitz). Athenodorus, who taught at Athens at the same time as Pollux, was likewise one of his detractors. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii. 14.) We know nothing more of the life of Pollux, except that he was the teacher of the sophist Antipater, who taught in the reign of Alexander Severus. (Philostr. Ibid. ii. 24.)

Pollux was the author of several works, of which

Suidas has preserved the titles of the following. 1. 'OvoμATIKÒv év Biểλíois í', an Onomasticon in ten books. 2. Aiaλékeis žтoi λaλiaí, Dissertations. 3. Meλéral, Declamations. 4. Els Kóμodov Kaiσapa éñidaλáμios, an oration on the marriage of the Caesar Commodus. 5. Pwμaïkds λóyos, a panegyric on Rome. 6. ΣαλTIYKTηs î áɣáv μovσikós, a Trumpeter, or a musical contest. 7. Kатd Zwкрáтous, a speech against Socrates. 8. Κατὰ Σινωπέων, against the Sinopians. 9. Пaveλλnvios, a speech delivered before the assembled Greeks. 10. ApKadikós, a speech addressed to the Arcadians or in praise of the Arcadians.

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All these works have perished with the exception of the Onomasticon, which has come down to The latter is divided into ten books, each of which contains a short dedication to the Caesar Commodus, and the work was therefore published before A. D. 177, since Commodus became Augustus in that year. Each book forms a separate treatise by itself, containing the most important words relating to certain subjects, with short explanations of the meanings of the words, which are frequently illustrated by quotations from the ancient writers. The alphabetical arrangement is not adopted, but the words are given according to the subjects treated of in each book. The object of the work was to present youths with a kind of store-house, from which they could borrow all the words of which they had need, and could at the same time learn their usage in the best writers. The contents of each book will give the best idea of the nature of the work. 1. The first treats of the gods and their worship, of kings, of speed and slowness, of dyeing, of commerce and manufactures, of fertility and the contrary, of time and the divisions of the year, of houses, of ships, of war, of horses, of agriculture, of the parts of the plough and the waggon, and of bees. 2. The second treats man, his eye, the parts of his body and the like. 3. Of relations, of political life, of friends, of the love of country, of love, of the relation between masters and slaves, of money, of travelling, and numerous other subjects. 4. Of the various branches of knowledge and science. 5. Of hunting, animals, &c. 6. Of meals, the names of crimes, &c. 7. Of the different trades, &c. 8. Of the courts, the administration of justice, &c. 9. Of towns, buildings, coins, games, &c. 10. Of various vessels, &c. In consequence of the loss of the great number of lexicographical works from which Pollux compiled his Onomasticon, this book has become one of the greatest value for acquiring a knowledge of Greek antiquity, and explains many subjects which are known to us from no other source. It has also preserved many fragments of lost writers, and the great number of authors quoted in the work may be seen by a glance at the long list given in Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 145, &c.)

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by J. H. Lederlin and Tib. Hemstershuis, Amsterdam, 1706, fol.; it contains copious notes by Goth. Jungermann, Joach. Kühn, and the two editors. This was followed by the edition of W.. Dindorf, Leipzig, 1824, 5 vols. 8vo., containing the works of the previous commentators. The last edition is by Imm. Bekker, Berlin, 1846, which gives only the Greek text.

(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 141; Vossius, De Hist. Graecis, p. 278, ed. Westermann; Hemsterhuis, Praefatio ad Pollucem; C. F. Ranke, Commentatio de Polluce et Luciano, Quedlinburg, 1831; Gräfenhan, Geschichte der Klassichen Philologie, vol. iii. p. 166, &c., Bonn, 1846 ; Clinton, Fasti Romani, sub ann. 176, 183.)

POLLUX, JU'LIUS, a Byzantine writer, is the author of a chronicon, which treats at some length of the creation of the world, and is therefore entitled 'IoTopía qvoký. Like most other Byzantine histories, it is an universal history, beginning with the creation of the world and coming down to the time of the writer. The two manuscripts from which this work is published end with the reign of Valens, but the Paris manuscript is said to come down as low as the death of Romanus, A. D. 963, and also to contain what is wanting at the conclusion of the anonymous continuation of Constantinus Porphyrogenitus. The whole work is made up of extracts from Simeon Logotheta, Theophanes, and the continuation of Constantinus, and relates chiefly ecclesiastical events. It was first published from a manuscript at Milan by J. B. Bianconi, under the title of Anonymi Scriptoris Historia Sacra, Bononiae, 1779, fo. Ign. Hardt found the work in a more perfect state, and with the name of the author prefixed to it in a manuscript at Munich, and, believing that it had not yet been printed, published it at Munich, 1792, 8vo., under the title of Julii Pollucis Historia Physica, nunc primum Gr. et Lat. ed. &c. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 144; Vossius, De Hist. Graecis, p. 278, ed. Westermann; Schöll, Geschichte der Griechischen Litteratur, vol. iii. p. 257.)

POLUS (@λos). 1. A sophist and rhetorician, a native of Agrigentum. He was a disciple of Gorgias (or, according to other authorities, of Licymnius, Schol. ad Plat. Phaedr. p. 812), and wrote a work on rhetoric, called by Suidas Texn, as also a genealogy of the Greeks and barbarians who were engaged in the Trojan war, with an account of their several fates; a catalogue of the ships, and a work Περὶ Λέξεων. He is introduced by Plato as an interlocutor in the Gorgias. (Suidas, s. v. ; Philostr. Vit. Sophist. i. 13, with the note of Olearius; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 801.)

2. A Pythagorean, a native of Lucania. A fragment from a work by him on Justice is preserved by Stobaeus. (Serm. 9.)

3. A celebrated tragic actor, the son of Charicles of Sunium, and a disciple of Archias of Thurii. It The first three editions of the Onomasticon con- is related of him that at the age of 70, shortly betain simply the Greek text, without a Latin fore his death, he acted in eight tragedies on four translation and with numerous errors: they are successive days. (Plut. Dem. p. 859, An seni ger. by Aldus, Venice, 1502, fol., by B. Junta, Flo-sit Resp. 3. p. 785, b; Lucian. Necyom. vol. i. p. rence, 1520, fol., by S. Grynaeus, Basel, 1536, 4to. 479, ed. Hemst.) The first Greek and Latin edition was by Wolfgang Seber, Frankfort, 1608, 4to., with the text corrected from manuscripts; the Latin translation given in this edition had been previously published by Walther at Basel, 1541, 8vo. The next edition is the very valuable one in Greek and Latin

[C. P. M.] POLYAENUS (Пóλúaivos), historical. 1. One of the leading men at Syracuse, B. c. 214. (Liv. xxiv. 22.)

2. Of Cyparissus, was in the company of Philopoemen, when the latter killed Machanidas in B. C. 207. (Polyb. xi. 18. § 2.)

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