sentences:  He may therefore have been the grandson of Herius Asinius, a plebeian and a general of the Marrucini who fought on the Italian side in the Social War.Pollio moved in the literary circle of Catullus, and entered public life in 56 BC by supporting Lentulus Spinther.In 54 he unsuccessfully impeached Gaius Cato, a distant relative of the more famous Cato the Younger.