Pompeius

But our Pompeius is a typical landed rural nobleman - very closemouthed about what he's worth.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

POM.EIUS, author of two or three epigrams in the Palatine Anthology, also called Pompeius the Younger, is generally identified with M. Pompeius Theophanes, son of Theophanes of M.tylene, the friend of

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

Sertorius smiled when he heard of this, and said he would teach Sulla's pupil (for so he contemptuously called Pompeius) that a general should look behind him rather than before.

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Corbulo will receive power such as Pompeius Magnus received in the war with pirates.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

The name Sextus Pompeius is on the fasti already—that’s what happens when we choose the consuls years in advance and then simply pretend to have them elected.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The name Sextus Pompeius is on the fasti already—that’s what happens when we choose the consuls years in advance and then simply pretend to have them elected.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Such triumvirates have operated effectively throughout history, from the First Roman Triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Pompeius Magnus (aka “Pompey”) and Marcus Crassus), which, upon the death of Crassus led to a civil war between the remaining two factions, the end of which represented the defacto end of the Roman Republic.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Feature Not a Bug 2010

As part of the terms of a separate deal struck by Antony and Octavian with the Sicily-based Sextus Pompeius, those who had supported this outlaw against the triumvirs were permitted to return from exile without reprisals, an amnesty that finally permitted Livia and her husband and son to abandon their uncomfortable life on the run.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

But Octavian began to make peace overtures to Sextus Pompeius, and Livia and Tiberius Nero had to go on to Greece, where Sparta seems to have afforded the émigré couple a warm welcome at least, thanks probably to the doors opened by the Claudian family name, which had vested interests in the region.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Behind us stretched a great convoy of vehicles conveying the elected rulers of Rome—first Hybrida and then the praetors: Celer, Cosconius, Pompeius Rufus, Pomptinus, Roscius, Sulpicius, Valerius Flaccus.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010