Marcus Asinius Marcellus was consul in 54 as the colleague of Manius Acilius Aviola;[1] it was the same year the Emperor Claudius died.
[2] Marcellus was a Senator active in the reigns of the emperors Claudius and Nero.
In the year 60 Marcellus was caught up in a scandal involving a relative of a Praetor who forged his will.
Although Marcellus was also disgraced and his accomplices executed, he escaped punishment because the Emperor Nero intervened--reportedly because he was "great-grandson of Asinius Pollio and bore a character far from contemptible.
[5] Edmund Groag suggested he is identical to the homonymous man mentioned as a member of the College of Pontifices around AD 101/102.