Pollio, Caius Asinius, orator, historian, and poet, born at Rome; sided with Cæsar against Pompey, and after the death of the former with Antony; was a patron of letters and the friend of Virgil and Horace, both of whom dedicated poems to him; he was the first to establish a public library in Rome (76 B.C. to A.D. 4).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Polk, James Knox * Pollock, Sir Edward