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... Antonius audacia promptus, Marcellus Asinio Pollione proavo clarus neque...

Asinio Pollione...clarus: abl. of means or perhpas cause, "distinguished by/because of his great-grandfather, Asinius Pollio," who was active in politics as a confederate of Caesar, a mediator between Antony and Octavian and a patron of Vergil.