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27, n . 2. 47] Pollio, Salo11im1s, and Salo1Jae 29 armies of Octavian. 1 By coming to terms with the master of the sea, Domitius Ahenobarbus, he was able to make his way to Antony and bring an ally with him. When cruising down the Adriatic, it is difficult to avoid putting in at Salonae. So Pollio might have visited Salonae after all-and named his son in memory of that town. '2 The scholiasts were not aware that Pollio was on the eastern littoral of the Adriatic on two occasions- when on his way from northern Italy to join Antony before the Pact of Brundisium, and afterwards, in his province of Macedonia.
And takes the lines as addressed to Octavianus. J 3 W ho Was Decidius Saxa? I. Caesars Ne111 Se1wtors1 THE ancient evidence about the origin and social status of the new men who were introduced into the Roman Senate by Caesar the Dictator is neither abtmdant nor detaiJed, and prejudice might be suspected where it cannot be proved. To take a parallel: it is evident that exaggerated opinions about the character of the Sullan Senate have been incautiously adopted and slavishly perpetuated. 2 A careful examination of the composition of that body has revealed the presence of only one man who had been a centurion, L.
The majority of scholars believe that Pollio named his son to commemorate his capture of the city of Salonae. I Even Bennett in his acute study of the relations between Virgil and Pollio remarks that 'Saloninus quite obviously commemorates by his cognomen the taking of Salona'. 2 A small and distinguished minority, represented by Mornmsen and Carcopino, is sceptical about a capture of Salonae:3 but Carcopino maintains that Pollio spent the winter of the year I 4of39 at Salonae and named his son, born, it is argued, in 40, just before the end of the year, as a memorial of his sojourn.