sentences:  In superintending the distribution of the Mantuan territory amongst the veterans, he used his influence to save from confiscation the property of the poet Virgil.In 40 Pollio helped to arrange the peace of Brundisium by which Octavian and Antony were for a time reconciled.In the same year Pollio entered upon his consulship, which had been promised him in 43 by the Second Triumvirate.