Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

AND SO IT CAME ABOUT that on the fifth day of August, in the consulship of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus, one year and nine months after Sthenius had first come to see Cicero, the trial of Gaius Verres began.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

AND SO IT CAME ABOUT that on the fifth day of August, in the consulship of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus, one year and nine months after Sthenius had first come to see Cicero, the trial of Gaius Verres began.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Pompey (Kenneth Cranham) is all but perfect -- he even looks like the extant portrait busts of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

Rome Yet Again 2005

I, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, received a special commission from you six years ago to put down the revolt of Quintus Sertorius in Nearer Spain.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The ordinary people, who were not important and therefore did not suffer during the proscriptions, spoke these days with wistful longing for the time when Sulla had been the Dictator; but after the consulship of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was over, Sulla's reign would not loom so large in memory.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Those in favor of granting a special commission with a proconsular imperium and six legions to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, knight, stand to my right.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

“Your army has absolutely no right to make that determination, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.”

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

And Caesar, sitting in a corner, took in his first experience of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus unobserved.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

But Sulla knew, and Mamercus guessed; this was one more way to bind Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who had refused to join the Senate, but because of all those veterans of his father's was still a military force to be reckoned with.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

If the Senate had its share of wolves, was Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus going to be a sheep?

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993