Marcus Asinius Agrippa

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Marcus Asinius Agrippa was a

Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, then of Gaius Petronius.[1] Agrippa died at the end of the following year (26).[2] According to Tacitus, Agrippa was descended from a family more illustrious than ancient, and did not disgrace it by his mode of life, although he mentions no specifics.[3]

Agrippa was the half-brother of

Gaius Asinius Pollio)[4] Paul von Rohden speculates that he may have been the father of Marcus Asinius Marcellus, consul in 54.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
  2. Annales 4.61
  3. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Agrippa, M. Asinius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 77.
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  5. ^ von Rohden, "Asinius 18", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1896), Band II.2, col. 1588

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Agrippa, M. Asinius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 77.

Political offices
Preceded byas Suffect consuls
Consul of the Roman Empire
25
with Cossus Cornelius Lentulus,
followed by Gaius Petronius
Succeeded byas Ordinary consuls