Licinius
Crassus,
killed by Nero.
killed by Nero.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
2], was of humble origin ; but we know and as the latter very likely possessed public land,
nothing of his early career, nor of the means by he would be ready enough to oppose Gracchus,
which he first came into public notice. Since, although he had previously belonged to the popular
however, Cicero speaks of him (Brut. 25) as no party. We have likewise seen from his conduct
mean orator, distinction in oratory may have paved in the Numantine war that he had no great regard
the way for him as it did for so many other Romans for truth.
to the higher offices of the state. He was consul 5. Pompeia, daughter of No. 3, married C.
B. C. 141 with Cn. Servilius Caepio, and gained Sicinius. (Pompeia, No. ). )
his election in opposition to Laelius by assuring 6. Q. POMPEIUS Q. F. Rufus, either son or
Scipio that he did not intend to become a candi grandson of No. 3, was a zealous supporter of the
date for the office, and then entering upon a vigor- aristocratical party. In his tribunate of the plebs,
ous canvass after he had thus thrown the friends of B. c. 100, he brought forward a bill, in conjunction
Laelius off their guard. Scipio had previously with his colleague L. Cato, for the recal of Me
been on friendly terms with Pompeius, but now tellus Macedonicus from banishment (Oros. v. 17. )
renounced all further connection with him. (Plut. He was praetor B. c. 91 (Cic. de Orat. i. 37), and
1. c. ; Cic. Lael. 21. ) Pompeius in his consulship consul, B. c. 88, with L. Sulla In the latter year the
was sent into Nearer Spain as the successor of Q. civil war broke out between Marius and Sulla re-
Metellus (Val. Max. ix. 3. $7), and not of Fabius specting the command of the Mithridatic war.
Maximus Servilianus, who commanded in Further The history of these events is related in the life of
Spain (Appian, Hisp. 68). Pompeius was unsuc- Marius (p. 957); and it is only necessary to
cessful in Spain: he experienced several defeats mention here that the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus,
from the enemy, and in vain laid siege to Nu- who was the great agent of Marius, had previously
mantia. His troops, which he kept encamped been the personal friend of Pompeius; but such
before the walls of this town during the winter, was the exasperation of political feeling, that Sulpi-
perished in great numbers through the cold and cius had recourse to arms against his former friend,
disease ; and, accordingly, fearing that the aristo- in order to carry his measure for incorporating the
cracy would call him to account on his return to new citizens among the old tribes. In the riots
Rome, he proposed to the Numantines terms of which ensued, the young son of Pompeius was
peace. He required from them publicly an un- murdered. Pompeius himself was deprived of his
conditional surrender ; but in private only de consulship and fled to Nola, where Sulla had a
manded from them hostages, the captives and powerful army. At the head of these troops the
deserters, and also thirty talents. The Numan- two consuls speedily returned to Rome, and pro-
tines, who were weary of the war, gladly purchased scribed Marius and his leading partizans. Sulla
peace on these conditions, and immediately paid then set out for the East to conduct the war against
part of the money; but on the arrival of M. Popil. Mithridates, leaving Italy in charge of Pompeius.
lius Laenas in Spain shortly afterwards (B. c. 139), To the latter was assigned the army of Cn. Pom-
as the successor of Pompeius, the latter, who was peius Strabo, who was still engaged in carrying on
now released from the responsibility of the war, war against the Marsi ; but Strubo, who was im-
had the effrontery to disown the treaty, although it willing to be deprived of the command, caused
had been witnessed by the officers of his own army. Pompeius Rufus to be murdered by the soldiuis
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POMPEIUS.
476
POMPEIUS.
STEMMA POMPEIORUM.
1. L. Pompeius, Trib. Mil. B. c. 171.
2. A. Pompeius.
3. Q. Pompeius, Cos. B. C. 141, Cens. B. c. 131.
4. Pompeius,
B. C. 133.
5. Pompeia,
married C. Sicinius.
6. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Cos. B. C. 88.
7. A. Pompeius,
Trib. Pl. B. C. 102.
8. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
married Cornelia, daughter of the
dictator Sulla, killed B. C. 88.
11. Q. Pompeius Bithynicus.
I
12. A. Pompeius Bithynicus.
Pr. B. C. 44.
9. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Trib. Pl. D. C. 52.
10. Pompeia,
married the dictator
Caesar,
13. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Pr. B, C, 63.
14. Cn. Pompeius.
15. Sex. Pompeius,
married Lucilia,
16. Sex. Pompeius,
Vir doctus, B. C. 89.
21. Cn. Pompeius Strabo,
Cos. B. C. 89.
18. Q. Pompeius.
23. Pompeia.
17. Sex. Pompeius.
1
19. Sex. Pompeius,
Cos. B. C. 35.
22. CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS,
triumvir,
married,
1. Antistia,
2. Aemilia,
3. Mucia,
4. Julia,
5. Cornelia
1
20. Sex. Pompeius,
Cos. A. D. 14.
24. Cn. Pompeius Magnus,
married Claudia ;
died B. C. 45,
25. Sex. Pompeius Magnus,
married Scribonia ;
died B. C, 35.
26. Pompeia,
married
Faustus Sulla.
27. Pompeia,
married Scribonius Libo.
Libo Drusus,
died A. D. 19.
Scribonia, married
M. Licinius Crassus,
Cos. A. D. 29.
M.
Licinius Crassus,
killed by Nero.
28. Cn. Pompeius Magnus,
married the daughter
of the emperor Claudius.
L. Calpurnius Piso
Licinianus. (See
Piso, No. 31. )
Licinius
Crassus
Scribonianus.
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476
POMPEIUS.
POMPEIUS.
shortly after his arrival in the camp, haring pre- wns feared that the slaves in Campania and
viously received him without opposition. (See Apulia might rise in support of Catiline. In B. C.
below, No. 21. ) Cicero mentions Pompeius Rufus GT he obtained the province of Africa, with the title
among the orators whom he had heard in his youth: of proconsul, which he governed with great in-
his orations were written or corrected by L. Aelius. tegrity, according to Cicero. He did not, however,
(Appian, B. C. i. 55-57, 63; Vell. Pat. ii. 20; succeed in obtaining the consulship, although he was
Liv. Epit. 77 ; Plut. Sull. 8 ; Cic. Lacl. 1. pro alive some years afterwards, for we find him bear-
Clucnt. 5, Brut. 56, 89. )
ing witness in B. c. 56 in behalf of M. Caelius, who
7. A POMPEIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 102, had been with him in Africa. (Sall. Cat. 30;
may perhaps have been a younger son of No. 4. Cic. pro Cuel. 30. )
(Plut. Mar. 17. )
14. Cn. Pompejus, only known from the Fasti
8. Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of No. 6, married Capitolini, as the grandfather of No. 21.
Sulla's daughter, and was murdered by the party 15. Sex. POMPEIUS, son of the preceding, mar-
of Sulpicius and Marius in the forum in B. c. 88 ried Lucilin, a sister of the poet C. Lucilius, who
(Appian, B. C. i. 56 ; Plut. Sull. 8).
was therefore the grandmother, and not the mother
9. Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of No. 8, and grand of the triumvir, as is stated by Velleius Paterculus
son of the dictator Sulla, first appears in public in (ii. 29), and many modern writers.
B. C. 54 as the accuser of M. Messalla, because he 16. Sex. POMPRIUS Sex. F. CN. N. , was the
had gained his election to the consulship by bribery. son of No. 15, and we may conclude from his pme-
[Messalla, No. 7. ] He was tribune of the plebs nomen that he was the elder of his two sons, He
B. C. 52, and not B. c. 53, as Dion Cassius states never obtained any of the higher offices of the state,
(xl. 45). In his tribuneship he distinguished him- but acquired great reputation as a man of learning,
self as the great partizan of the triumvir Pom- and is praised by Cicero for his accurate knowledge of
pey. The latter longed for the dictatorship, and jurisprudence, geometry, and the Stoic philosophy.
therefore secretly fomented the disturbances at He was present on one occasion in the camp of his
Rome, in hopes that all parties tired of anarchy brother Strabo during the Social war, B. C. 89, but
would willingly throw themselves into his arms. this is the only time in which his name occurs in
Rufus supported his views, and to increase the public affairs. (Cic. Brut. 47, Philipp. xii. 11, De
confusion would not allow any of the elections to Orat. i. 15, iii. 21, De Off: i. 6. )
be held. There seemed an end of all government. 17. Sex. Pompeius, son of No. 16, only known
The senate apprehended Rufus and cast him into as the father of No. 19.
prison, notwithstanding his sacred character as 18. Q. POMPEIUS Sex. F. , probably younger
tribune ; but this act of violence only strengthened son of No. 16, is recommended by Cicero in a
his power and influence. He retaliated by throw- letter, of which we do not know the date, to one
ing into prison one of the most active supporters of Curius, proconsul of some province (Cic. ad Fam.
the senatorial party, the aedile Favonius. The xiv. 49).
murder of Clodius by Milo on the 20th of January 19. Sex. POMPEIUS Sex. F. , son of No. 17,
still further favoured the views of the triumvir; was consul B. c. 35, with L. Cornificius, in which
Kufus and his colleague Munatius Plancus added year Sex. Pompeius, the son of the triumvir, was
fuel to the fire, and omitted no means for increas- killed in Asia. (Dion Cass. xlix. 18, 33. )
ing the wrath of the people. Pompey was ap- 20. Sex. Pompeius Sex. F. son of No. 19, was
pointed sole consul; the laws which he proposed consul A. D. 14, with Sex. Appuleius, in which
were supported by Rufus and his party, and Milo year the emperor Augustus died. These consuls
was condemned. But he had no sooner laid down were the first to render homage to Tiberius (Dion
his office of tribune, on the 10th of December in Cass. lvi. 29 ; Tac. Ann. i. 7 ; Suet. Aug. 100 ;
this year, than he was accused by one of his late Vell. Pat. ii. 123). Sex Pompeius seems to have
colleagues, M. Caelius, of violating the very law been a patron of literature. Ovid addressed him
De Vi, which he had taken so active a part in several letters during his exile (ex Pont. iv. 1. 4,
passing. He was condemned, and lived in exile at 5, 15); and it was probably this same Sex. Pom-
Bauli in Campania. Here he was in great pecu- peius, whom the writer Valerius Maximus accom-
niary difficulties, till M. Caelius, who had accused panied to Asia, and of whom he speaks as his Aler-
him, generously compelled his mother Cornelia to ander. (Val. Max. ii. 6. § 8, iv. 7. extern. & 2. )
surrender to him his paternal property. The last 21. Cn. Pompeius Ses. F. Cn. N. STRABO,
time that Rufus is mentioned is in B. c. 51, when younger son of No. 15, and father of the triumvir.
his enemies spread the false report that he had His surname Strabo, which signifies one who
murdered Cicero on his journey to Cilicia. (Cic. squints, and which occurs in several other Roman
ad Q. Fr. iii. 2. § 3, ad Att. ir.
nothing of his early career, nor of the means by he would be ready enough to oppose Gracchus,
which he first came into public notice. Since, although he had previously belonged to the popular
however, Cicero speaks of him (Brut. 25) as no party. We have likewise seen from his conduct
mean orator, distinction in oratory may have paved in the Numantine war that he had no great regard
the way for him as it did for so many other Romans for truth.
to the higher offices of the state. He was consul 5. Pompeia, daughter of No. 3, married C.
B. C. 141 with Cn. Servilius Caepio, and gained Sicinius. (Pompeia, No. ). )
his election in opposition to Laelius by assuring 6. Q. POMPEIUS Q. F. Rufus, either son or
Scipio that he did not intend to become a candi grandson of No. 3, was a zealous supporter of the
date for the office, and then entering upon a vigor- aristocratical party. In his tribunate of the plebs,
ous canvass after he had thus thrown the friends of B. c. 100, he brought forward a bill, in conjunction
Laelius off their guard. Scipio had previously with his colleague L. Cato, for the recal of Me
been on friendly terms with Pompeius, but now tellus Macedonicus from banishment (Oros. v. 17. )
renounced all further connection with him. (Plut. He was praetor B. c. 91 (Cic. de Orat. i. 37), and
1. c. ; Cic. Lael. 21. ) Pompeius in his consulship consul, B. c. 88, with L. Sulla In the latter year the
was sent into Nearer Spain as the successor of Q. civil war broke out between Marius and Sulla re-
Metellus (Val. Max. ix. 3. $7), and not of Fabius specting the command of the Mithridatic war.
Maximus Servilianus, who commanded in Further The history of these events is related in the life of
Spain (Appian, Hisp. 68). Pompeius was unsuc- Marius (p. 957); and it is only necessary to
cessful in Spain: he experienced several defeats mention here that the tribune P. Sulpicius Rufus,
from the enemy, and in vain laid siege to Nu- who was the great agent of Marius, had previously
mantia. His troops, which he kept encamped been the personal friend of Pompeius; but such
before the walls of this town during the winter, was the exasperation of political feeling, that Sulpi-
perished in great numbers through the cold and cius had recourse to arms against his former friend,
disease ; and, accordingly, fearing that the aristo- in order to carry his measure for incorporating the
cracy would call him to account on his return to new citizens among the old tribes. In the riots
Rome, he proposed to the Numantines terms of which ensued, the young son of Pompeius was
peace. He required from them publicly an un- murdered. Pompeius himself was deprived of his
conditional surrender ; but in private only de consulship and fled to Nola, where Sulla had a
manded from them hostages, the captives and powerful army. At the head of these troops the
deserters, and also thirty talents. The Numan- two consuls speedily returned to Rome, and pro-
tines, who were weary of the war, gladly purchased scribed Marius and his leading partizans. Sulla
peace on these conditions, and immediately paid then set out for the East to conduct the war against
part of the money; but on the arrival of M. Popil. Mithridates, leaving Italy in charge of Pompeius.
lius Laenas in Spain shortly afterwards (B. c. 139), To the latter was assigned the army of Cn. Pom-
as the successor of Pompeius, the latter, who was peius Strabo, who was still engaged in carrying on
now released from the responsibility of the war, war against the Marsi ; but Strubo, who was im-
had the effrontery to disown the treaty, although it willing to be deprived of the command, caused
had been witnessed by the officers of his own army. Pompeius Rufus to be murdered by the soldiuis
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POMPEIUS.
476
POMPEIUS.
STEMMA POMPEIORUM.
1. L. Pompeius, Trib. Mil. B. c. 171.
2. A. Pompeius.
3. Q. Pompeius, Cos. B. C. 141, Cens. B. c. 131.
4. Pompeius,
B. C. 133.
5. Pompeia,
married C. Sicinius.
6. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Cos. B. C. 88.
7. A. Pompeius,
Trib. Pl. B. C. 102.
8. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
married Cornelia, daughter of the
dictator Sulla, killed B. C. 88.
11. Q. Pompeius Bithynicus.
I
12. A. Pompeius Bithynicus.
Pr. B. C. 44.
9. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Trib. Pl. D. C. 52.
10. Pompeia,
married the dictator
Caesar,
13. Q. Pompeius Rufus,
Pr. B, C, 63.
14. Cn. Pompeius.
15. Sex. Pompeius,
married Lucilia,
16. Sex. Pompeius,
Vir doctus, B. C. 89.
21. Cn. Pompeius Strabo,
Cos. B. C. 89.
18. Q. Pompeius.
23. Pompeia.
17. Sex. Pompeius.
1
19. Sex. Pompeius,
Cos. B. C. 35.
22. CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS,
triumvir,
married,
1. Antistia,
2. Aemilia,
3. Mucia,
4. Julia,
5. Cornelia
1
20. Sex. Pompeius,
Cos. A. D. 14.
24. Cn. Pompeius Magnus,
married Claudia ;
died B. C. 45,
25. Sex. Pompeius Magnus,
married Scribonia ;
died B. C, 35.
26. Pompeia,
married
Faustus Sulla.
27. Pompeia,
married Scribonius Libo.
Libo Drusus,
died A. D. 19.
Scribonia, married
M. Licinius Crassus,
Cos. A. D. 29.
M.
Licinius Crassus,
killed by Nero.
28. Cn. Pompeius Magnus,
married the daughter
of the emperor Claudius.
L. Calpurnius Piso
Licinianus. (See
Piso, No. 31. )
Licinius
Crassus
Scribonianus.
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476
POMPEIUS.
POMPEIUS.
shortly after his arrival in the camp, haring pre- wns feared that the slaves in Campania and
viously received him without opposition. (See Apulia might rise in support of Catiline. In B. C.
below, No. 21. ) Cicero mentions Pompeius Rufus GT he obtained the province of Africa, with the title
among the orators whom he had heard in his youth: of proconsul, which he governed with great in-
his orations were written or corrected by L. Aelius. tegrity, according to Cicero. He did not, however,
(Appian, B. C. i. 55-57, 63; Vell. Pat. ii. 20; succeed in obtaining the consulship, although he was
Liv. Epit. 77 ; Plut. Sull. 8 ; Cic. Lacl. 1. pro alive some years afterwards, for we find him bear-
Clucnt. 5, Brut. 56, 89. )
ing witness in B. c. 56 in behalf of M. Caelius, who
7. A POMPEIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 102, had been with him in Africa. (Sall. Cat. 30;
may perhaps have been a younger son of No. 4. Cic. pro Cuel. 30. )
(Plut. Mar. 17. )
14. Cn. Pompejus, only known from the Fasti
8. Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of No. 6, married Capitolini, as the grandfather of No. 21.
Sulla's daughter, and was murdered by the party 15. Sex. POMPEIUS, son of the preceding, mar-
of Sulpicius and Marius in the forum in B. c. 88 ried Lucilin, a sister of the poet C. Lucilius, who
(Appian, B. C. i. 56 ; Plut. Sull. 8).
was therefore the grandmother, and not the mother
9. Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of No. 8, and grand of the triumvir, as is stated by Velleius Paterculus
son of the dictator Sulla, first appears in public in (ii. 29), and many modern writers.
B. C. 54 as the accuser of M. Messalla, because he 16. Sex. POMPRIUS Sex. F. CN. N. , was the
had gained his election to the consulship by bribery. son of No. 15, and we may conclude from his pme-
[Messalla, No. 7. ] He was tribune of the plebs nomen that he was the elder of his two sons, He
B. C. 52, and not B. c. 53, as Dion Cassius states never obtained any of the higher offices of the state,
(xl. 45). In his tribuneship he distinguished him- but acquired great reputation as a man of learning,
self as the great partizan of the triumvir Pom- and is praised by Cicero for his accurate knowledge of
pey. The latter longed for the dictatorship, and jurisprudence, geometry, and the Stoic philosophy.
therefore secretly fomented the disturbances at He was present on one occasion in the camp of his
Rome, in hopes that all parties tired of anarchy brother Strabo during the Social war, B. C. 89, but
would willingly throw themselves into his arms. this is the only time in which his name occurs in
Rufus supported his views, and to increase the public affairs. (Cic. Brut. 47, Philipp. xii. 11, De
confusion would not allow any of the elections to Orat. i. 15, iii. 21, De Off: i. 6. )
be held. There seemed an end of all government. 17. Sex. Pompeius, son of No. 16, only known
The senate apprehended Rufus and cast him into as the father of No. 19.
prison, notwithstanding his sacred character as 18. Q. POMPEIUS Sex. F. , probably younger
tribune ; but this act of violence only strengthened son of No. 16, is recommended by Cicero in a
his power and influence. He retaliated by throw- letter, of which we do not know the date, to one
ing into prison one of the most active supporters of Curius, proconsul of some province (Cic. ad Fam.
the senatorial party, the aedile Favonius. The xiv. 49).
murder of Clodius by Milo on the 20th of January 19. Sex. POMPEIUS Sex. F. , son of No. 17,
still further favoured the views of the triumvir; was consul B. c. 35, with L. Cornificius, in which
Kufus and his colleague Munatius Plancus added year Sex. Pompeius, the son of the triumvir, was
fuel to the fire, and omitted no means for increas- killed in Asia. (Dion Cass. xlix. 18, 33. )
ing the wrath of the people. Pompey was ap- 20. Sex. Pompeius Sex. F. son of No. 19, was
pointed sole consul; the laws which he proposed consul A. D. 14, with Sex. Appuleius, in which
were supported by Rufus and his party, and Milo year the emperor Augustus died. These consuls
was condemned. But he had no sooner laid down were the first to render homage to Tiberius (Dion
his office of tribune, on the 10th of December in Cass. lvi. 29 ; Tac. Ann. i. 7 ; Suet. Aug. 100 ;
this year, than he was accused by one of his late Vell. Pat. ii. 123). Sex Pompeius seems to have
colleagues, M. Caelius, of violating the very law been a patron of literature. Ovid addressed him
De Vi, which he had taken so active a part in several letters during his exile (ex Pont. iv. 1. 4,
passing. He was condemned, and lived in exile at 5, 15); and it was probably this same Sex. Pom-
Bauli in Campania. Here he was in great pecu- peius, whom the writer Valerius Maximus accom-
niary difficulties, till M. Caelius, who had accused panied to Asia, and of whom he speaks as his Aler-
him, generously compelled his mother Cornelia to ander. (Val. Max. ii. 6. § 8, iv. 7. extern. & 2. )
surrender to him his paternal property. The last 21. Cn. Pompeius Ses. F. Cn. N. STRABO,
time that Rufus is mentioned is in B. c. 51, when younger son of No. 15, and father of the triumvir.
his enemies spread the false report that he had His surname Strabo, which signifies one who
murdered Cicero on his journey to Cilicia. (Cic. squints, and which occurs in several other Roman
ad Q. Fr. iii. 2. § 3, ad Att. ir.
