Marcus Asinius Marcellus

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Marcus Asinius Marcellus was Consul in 54 along with Marcus Acilius Aviola at the Emperor Claudius' death. He was the son of Marcus Asinius Agrippa, Consul in 25 who died in 26 and described by Tacitus (Annals 4.61) as "not unworthy of his ancestors". He was also the paternal grandson of Vipsania Agrippina.

Marcellus was a prominent and respected Senator in Claudius' and Nero’s reigns. In 60, Marcellus was involved and caught in a scandal involving a a relative of a Praetor who forged his will. The associates in the scandal were disgraced and punished. Although Marcellus was disgraced and his accomplices executed, he escaped punishment because the Emperor Nero, his third cousin, intervened, reportedly because he was "great-grandson of Asinius Pollio and bore a character far from contemptible."

He is mentioned in Tacitus, Annals XII.64 and XIV.40.

[edit] Marcus Asinius Marcellus, the Younger

Marcus Asinius Marcellus had a son of the same name. The younger Marcus Asinius Marcellus was a Consul in 104 under Emperor Trajan. He was the brother or father of Asinia Marcella, Domina figl., wife of Caius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Legate at Judaea between 102 and 105, Consul of Rome in 105 and Proconsul of Asia in 105. Marcus Asinius Agrippa was perhaps the father of (Marcus Asinius Pollio) (b. 25) and Caius Asinius Placentinus (b. 30), nob. v. at the middle of the 1st century, the first of them perhaps the father of Marcus Asinius Pollio Verrucosus (45 or 50 – after 81), Consul of Rome in 81, and the second of them perhaps the father of Marcus Asinius Atratinus (55 – after 89), Consul of Rome in 89, any of them in turn perhaps the father of Caius Asinius M.f. Tucurianus, Proconsul of Sardinia ca 115. These Asinii Marcelli were from the same branch of the Claudii Marcelli which united with the family of Augustus, from the Gens Claudia.

[edit] References

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