Marcus Asinius Agrippa

{{short description|1st-century BC Roman senator and consul}}

Marcus Asinius Agrippa was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate. He was consul in AD 25 as the colleague of first Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, then of Gaius Petronius.Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459 Agrippa died at the end of the following year (26).Tacitus, Annales 4.61 According to Tacitus, Agrippa was descended from a family more illustrious than ancient, and did not disgrace it by his mode of life, although he mentions no specifics.{{Cite book | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Agrippa, M. Asinius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 77 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0086.html}}

Agrippa was the half-brother of Drusus Julius Caesar, the natural son of the Emperor Tiberius. He was the grandson of Gaius Asinius Pollio, the second son of Gaius Asinius Gallus and Vipsania Agrippina (after Gaius Asinius Pollio){{cite book | last = Syme | first = Ronald | authorlink = Ronald Syme | title = The Augustan Aristocracy | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1986 | location = Oxford | pages = 145f | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fj8oQ4lzteIC | isbn = 0-19-814731-7}} Paul von Rohden speculates that he may have been the father of Marcus Asinius Marcellus, consul in 54.von Rohden, [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Asinius_18 "Asinius 18"], Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1896), Band II.2, col. 1588