de
Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed off.
Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed off.
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CN.
POMPEIUS MAGNUS, was descended POMPIDAS (Tloutions), a Theban, who was
from the family of the triumvir, but his pedigree is one of the leaders of the party in his native city
not stated by the ancient writers. He was, most favourable to the Roman interests. On this account
probably, a son of M. Licinius Crassus, Cos. A. D. he was driven into exile, when Ismenias and his
29, and Scribonia ; the latter of whom was a partizans obtained the direction of affairs, and con-
daughter of Scribonius Libo and of Ponipeia, the cluded a treaty with Perseus. He afterwards took
daughter of Sex. Pompey, who was a son of the a prominent part in the accusation of Ismenias and
triumvir. He would thus hare been a great-grand- his colleagues before the Roman deputy, Q. Marcius
son of Sex. Pompey, and great-great-grandson of Philippus, at Chalcis, B. c. 171. (Polyb. xxvii.
the triumvir (see Stemma on p. 475). It was 2. )
(E. H. B. ]
not uncommon in the imperial period for persons POMPI'LIA GENS, is early mentioned.
to drop their paternal names, and assume the There was a tribune of the plebs of the name of
names of their maternal ancestors. Caligula would Sex. Pompilius in B. C. 420 (Liv, iv. 44); and
not allow this Pompey to use the cognomen of Q. Cicero speaks (de Pet. Cons. 3) of a Roman
Magnus; but it was restored to him by the em-eques of the name, who was a friend of Catiline ;
peror Claudius, whose daughter Antonia he married. but these are almost the only Pompilii of whom
He was sent by his father-in-law to the senate to we have any account, with the exception of the
proclaim his victory over Britain. He was sub- grammarian mentioned below. The gentes, which
sequently put to death by Claudius, at the instiga- traced their descent from Numa Pompilius, the
tion of Messalina. (Dion Cass. lx. 5, 21, 29 ; second king of Rome, bore other names. (Cal-
Zonar. xi. 9 ; Suet. Cal. 35, Claud. 27, 29 ; Senec. PURNIA Gens; POMPONIA GENS. )
A pocol. Claud. )
M. POMPILIUS ANDRONI'CUS, was a
29. M. Pompeius, the commander of the cavalry Syrian by birth, and taught rhetoric at Rome in
under Lucullus, in the third Mithridatic war. He the former half of the first century before Christ,
was wounded and taken prisoner (Appian, Mithr. but in consequence of his indolent habits he was
79; Memnon, 45, ed. Orelli). Plutarch calls him eclipsed by Antonius Gnipho and other gram-
Pomponius (Lucull
. 15), which Schweighäuser has marians, and accordingly retired to Cumae, where
introduced into the text of Appian, though all the he composed many works. His most celebrated
MSS. of Appian have Pompeius.
work was entitled Annalium Ennü Elenchi, but
30. Cn. Pompeius, served in Caesar's army in the exact meaning of Elenchi is a disputed point.
Gaul, under the legate Q. Titurius, in B. C. 54. The elder Pliny uses it to signify a list of contents
(Caes. B. G. v. 36. )
to his work on Natural History. (Suet. de Ill.
31. Cn. POMPEIUS, consul suffectus from the Gramm. 8. )
1st of October, B. c. 31 (Fasti).
POMPO'NIA. ). Wife of P. Cornelius Scipio,
POMPEIUS, a Latin grammarian of uncertain consul B. c. 218, and mother of P. Scipio Africanus
date, probably lived before Servius and Cassio- the elder. (Sil. Ital. xiii. 615; comp. Gell. vii. 1. )
dorus, as these writers appear to have made some 2. The sister of T. Pomponius Atticus, was
use of his works. He wrote, 1. Commentum artis married to Q. Cicero, the brother of the orator.
Donati, on the different parts of speech, in thirty- The marriage was effected through the mediation
one sections, and 2. Commentariolus in librum of M. Cicero, the great friend of Atticus, B. C. 68,
Donati de Barbaris et Metaplasmis, in six sections. but it proved an extremely unhappy one. Pom-
Both these works were published, for the first ponia seems to have been of a quarrelsome dis-
time, by Lindemann, Leipzig, 1821.
position, and the husband and wife were on bad
POMPEIUS CATUSSA, an artist, whose terms almost from the day of their marriage.
name is found on a monument which he erected to Their matrimonial disputes gave Cicero great
his wife's memory, and which is now in the mu- trouble and uneasiness. His letters to Atticus
seum at Lyon. He is described in the inscription frequently contain allusions to the subject. His
as a citizen of Sequana, and a tector, that is, one of friend naturally thought bis sister ill used, and
those artists who decorated the interiors of houses besought Cicero to interpose on her behalf; but
with ornamental plastering, a sort of work of the latter as naturally advocated the cause of his
which there are numerous examples at Pompeii. brother, who really seems to have been the least
(R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 437. ) in fault. In a letter which Cicero wrote to Atticus
POMPEIUS COLLE'GA. [COLLEGA. ] in B. c. 51 he gives an amusing account of one of
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POMPONIUS.
1
their matrimonial squabbles, of which he was an POMPONIUS. 1. M. PuMPONIUS, one of the
eye-witness (ud Att. v. 1). When their son, tribunes of the plebs, elected at the abolition of the
young Quintus, grew up, he endeavoured to re- decemvirate, B. C. 419. (Liv. iii. 54. )
concile his parents, and was encouraged in his 2. M. POMPONIUs, consular tribune, B. C. 399,
filial task by both his uncles ; but he did not perhaps either a son or grandson of the preceding.
mect with much success; and Q. Cicero, after (Liv. v. 13. )
leading a miserable life with bis wife for almost 3. Q. POMPONIUs, perhaps a younger brother
twenty-four years, at length divorced her at the of the preceding. was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 395,
end of B. c. 45, or in the beginning of the follow- in which year he supported the views of the senate
ing year. (Corn. Nep. Att. 5 ; Cic. ad Att. i. 5, by opposing, in conjunction with his colleague, A.
v. l, vii. 1, 5, xiv. 10, et alibi, ad Q. Fr. iii. I, Virginiue, the proposition that a portion of the
&c. )
scnate and people should settle at Veii. He and
3. The daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus. She his colleague were, in consequence, accused two
is also called Caecilin, because her father was years afterwards, and compelled to pay a heavy
adopted by Q. Caecilius, and likewise Atticn. fine. (Liv. v. 29, comp. cc. 24, 25. )
She was born B. c. 51, after Cicero had left 4. M. POMPONIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C.
Italy for Cilicia. She is frequently mentioned in 362, brought an accusation against L. Manlius
Cicero's letters to Atticus, and seems at an early Imperiosus, who had been dictator in the preceding
age to bave given promise of future excellence. year, but was compelled to drop the accusation by
She was still quite young when she was married the son of Manlius, afterwards surnamed Tor-
to M. Vipsanius Agrippa. The marriage was ne- quatus, who obtained admittance into the tribune's
gotiated by M. Antony, the triumvir, probably in house, and threatened him with immediate death
B. C. 36. She was afterwards suspected of improper if he did not swear that he would abandon the
intercourse with the grammarian Q. Caecilius impeachment of his father. (Liv. vii. 4, 5; Cic.
de
Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed off. ii. 30. ; Val. Max. v. 4. $ 3; Appian, Samn.
her. Her subsequent history is not known. Her | 2. ) [TORQUATUS. ]
husband Agrippa married Marcella in B. c. 28, and 5. Sex. POMPONIUS, legatus of the consul Ti.
accordingly she must either have died or been Sempronius Longus in the first year of the first
divorced from her husband before that year. Her Punic war, B. c. 218. (Liv. xxi. 15. )
daughter Vipsania Agrippina married Tiberius, 6. M. POMPONIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C.
the successor of Augustus. (Cic. ad Atl. v. 19, 167, opposed, with his colleague M. Antonius, the
vi. 1, 2, 5, vii. 2, et alibi ; Corn. Nep. Att. 12 ; proposition of the praetor M. Jurentius Thalna,
Suet. Tib. 7, de Ilustr, Gramm. 16. )
that war should be declared against the Rhodians.
POMPO'NIA GRAECI'NA, the wife of A. (Liv. xlv. 21. ) Pomponius was praetor in B. C.
Plautius, was accused in the reign of Claudius of | 161, and in this year obtained a decree of the
practising religious worship unauthorised by the senate, by which philosophers and rhetoricians
state ; but her husband Plautius, who was allowed, were forbidden to live in Rome. (Suet. de clar.
on account of his victories in Britain, to judge her, Rhet. 1 ; Gell. xv. 11. )
in accordance with the old Roman law, declared 7. M. POMPONIUS, a Roman eques, was one of
her innocent. She was probably the daughter of the most intimate friends of C. Gracchus, and
P. Pomponius Graecinus, consul suffectus A. D. 16. distinguished himself by his fidelity to the latter
She was related to Julia, the daughter of Drusus, on the day of his death, B. c. 121. When Grac-
and granddaughter of Pomponia, the daughter of chus, despairing of his life, had retired to the
Atticus ; and she lived forty years after the death temple of Diana, and was going to kill himself
of Julia, who was executed by Claudius at the in- there, Pomponius and Licinius took his sword, and
stigation of Messalina. (Tac. Ann. xi. 32. ) induced him to fly. As they fled across the Sub-
POMPONIA RUFI'NA, a Vestal virgin in lician bridge, hotly pursued, Pomponius and Licinius
the reign of Caracalla, put to death for violation of turned round, in order to give their friend time for
her vow of chastity. (Dion Cass. Ixxvii. 16. ) escape, and they allowed no one to pass till they
POMPO'NIAGENS, plebeian. Towards the fell pierced with wounds. This is the account of
end of the republic the Pomponii, like other Plutarch ; the details are related a little differently
Roman gentes, traced their origin to the remote by other writers. (Plut. C. Gracch. 16, 17 ; Vell.
times of the Roman state. They pretended to be Pat. j. 6; Val. Max. iv. 7. $ 2; Aurel. Vict. de
descended from Pompo, one of the alleged sons of l'ir. II. 65; comp. Cic. de Div. ii. 29. )
Numa (Plut. Num. 21); and they accordingly 8. M. POMPONIUS, aedile B. C. 82, in the con.
placed the image of this king upon their coins. sulship of the younger Marius. In the scenic
In the earliest times the Pomponii were not dis games exhibited by him, the actress Galeria ap-
tinguished by any sumame ; and the only family peared, who was then a child of 12 years old, and
that rose to importance in the time of the republic who was again brought on the stage in A. D. 9, in
was that of MathO; the first member of which her 104th year, in the votive games in honour of
wbo obtained the consulship was M. Pomponius Augustus. (Plin. H. N. vii. 49. s. 48. )
Matho in B. c. 233. On coins we also find the 9. Cn. POMPONIUS, who perished in the civil
cognomens Molo, Musa and Rufus, but these war between Marius and Sulla, was an orator of
surnames do not occur in ancient writers. The some repute, and is reckoned by Cicero as holding
other cognomens in the time of the republic, such the next place to his two great contemporaries,
as Atticus, were not family names, but were C. Aurelius Cotta and P. Sulpicius Rufus. His
rather descriptive of particular individuals
. An oratory was characterised by great vehemence, and
alphabetical list of them is given below, as well as he did not express his meaning very clearly. (Cic.
of the cognomens in the imperial period, which Brut. 57, 62, 89, 90, de Orat. iii. 13. )
were rather numerous. (Comp. Drumann, Ges. 10. M. POMPONIUS, as he is called by Plutarch
chichte Roms, vol. v. p. 1, &c. )
(Lucull. 15. ), the commander of the cavalry of Lu-
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POMPONICS.
POMPONICS,
1
8
cullus in the third Mithridatic war. Ilis real of Gains. The same remark applies to Dig. 46.
name was Pompeius. [PUMPEIUS, No. 29. ) tit. 3. 6. 78, which is an extract from C. Cassius
11. M. POMPONIUS, one of the legates of Pom-made by Javolenus.
pey in the war against the pirates, B. c. 67, to whom The works of Pomponius are the Enchiridion,
Pompey assigned the superintendence of the gulfs which is not mentioned in the Florentine Index;
washing the south of Gaul and Liguria. (Appian, Variae Lectiones, of which the Index mentions
Withr. 95. )
only fifteen books, though the twenty-fifth, the
12. P. Pomponius, accompanied P. Clodius, thirty-fourth, and even the fortieth and forty-first
when he was murdered by Milo, B. C. 52. (Ascon. books are cited in the Digest (Dig. 8. tit. 5, s. 8.
in Mil. p. 33, ed. Orelli. )
$9); twenty books of Epistolae ; five books of
13. M. POMPONIUS, commanded the feet of Fideicommissa ; libri lectionum ad Q. Mucium ;
Caesar at Messana, the greater part of which was libri ad Plautium ; liber singularis regularum ;
burnt in B. C. 48, by C. Cassius Longinus (Caes. libri ad Sabinum ; libri V. SCtorum ; and the two
B. C. ii. 101. )
books of an Enchiridion, which is mentioned in
14. Pomposius, was proscribed by the trium the Index. Some other writings of Pomponius
virs in B.
from the family of the triumvir, but his pedigree is one of the leaders of the party in his native city
not stated by the ancient writers. He was, most favourable to the Roman interests. On this account
probably, a son of M. Licinius Crassus, Cos. A. D. he was driven into exile, when Ismenias and his
29, and Scribonia ; the latter of whom was a partizans obtained the direction of affairs, and con-
daughter of Scribonius Libo and of Ponipeia, the cluded a treaty with Perseus. He afterwards took
daughter of Sex. Pompey, who was a son of the a prominent part in the accusation of Ismenias and
triumvir. He would thus hare been a great-grand- his colleagues before the Roman deputy, Q. Marcius
son of Sex. Pompey, and great-great-grandson of Philippus, at Chalcis, B. c. 171. (Polyb. xxvii.
the triumvir (see Stemma on p. 475). It was 2. )
(E. H. B. ]
not uncommon in the imperial period for persons POMPI'LIA GENS, is early mentioned.
to drop their paternal names, and assume the There was a tribune of the plebs of the name of
names of their maternal ancestors. Caligula would Sex. Pompilius in B. C. 420 (Liv, iv. 44); and
not allow this Pompey to use the cognomen of Q. Cicero speaks (de Pet. Cons. 3) of a Roman
Magnus; but it was restored to him by the em-eques of the name, who was a friend of Catiline ;
peror Claudius, whose daughter Antonia he married. but these are almost the only Pompilii of whom
He was sent by his father-in-law to the senate to we have any account, with the exception of the
proclaim his victory over Britain. He was sub- grammarian mentioned below. The gentes, which
sequently put to death by Claudius, at the instiga- traced their descent from Numa Pompilius, the
tion of Messalina. (Dion Cass. lx. 5, 21, 29 ; second king of Rome, bore other names. (Cal-
Zonar. xi. 9 ; Suet. Cal. 35, Claud. 27, 29 ; Senec. PURNIA Gens; POMPONIA GENS. )
A pocol. Claud. )
M. POMPILIUS ANDRONI'CUS, was a
29. M. Pompeius, the commander of the cavalry Syrian by birth, and taught rhetoric at Rome in
under Lucullus, in the third Mithridatic war. He the former half of the first century before Christ,
was wounded and taken prisoner (Appian, Mithr. but in consequence of his indolent habits he was
79; Memnon, 45, ed. Orelli). Plutarch calls him eclipsed by Antonius Gnipho and other gram-
Pomponius (Lucull
. 15), which Schweighäuser has marians, and accordingly retired to Cumae, where
introduced into the text of Appian, though all the he composed many works. His most celebrated
MSS. of Appian have Pompeius.
work was entitled Annalium Ennü Elenchi, but
30. Cn. Pompeius, served in Caesar's army in the exact meaning of Elenchi is a disputed point.
Gaul, under the legate Q. Titurius, in B. C. 54. The elder Pliny uses it to signify a list of contents
(Caes. B. G. v. 36. )
to his work on Natural History. (Suet. de Ill.
31. Cn. POMPEIUS, consul suffectus from the Gramm. 8. )
1st of October, B. c. 31 (Fasti).
POMPO'NIA. ). Wife of P. Cornelius Scipio,
POMPEIUS, a Latin grammarian of uncertain consul B. c. 218, and mother of P. Scipio Africanus
date, probably lived before Servius and Cassio- the elder. (Sil. Ital. xiii. 615; comp. Gell. vii. 1. )
dorus, as these writers appear to have made some 2. The sister of T. Pomponius Atticus, was
use of his works. He wrote, 1. Commentum artis married to Q. Cicero, the brother of the orator.
Donati, on the different parts of speech, in thirty- The marriage was effected through the mediation
one sections, and 2. Commentariolus in librum of M. Cicero, the great friend of Atticus, B. C. 68,
Donati de Barbaris et Metaplasmis, in six sections. but it proved an extremely unhappy one. Pom-
Both these works were published, for the first ponia seems to have been of a quarrelsome dis-
time, by Lindemann, Leipzig, 1821.
position, and the husband and wife were on bad
POMPEIUS CATUSSA, an artist, whose terms almost from the day of their marriage.
name is found on a monument which he erected to Their matrimonial disputes gave Cicero great
his wife's memory, and which is now in the mu- trouble and uneasiness. His letters to Atticus
seum at Lyon. He is described in the inscription frequently contain allusions to the subject. His
as a citizen of Sequana, and a tector, that is, one of friend naturally thought bis sister ill used, and
those artists who decorated the interiors of houses besought Cicero to interpose on her behalf; but
with ornamental plastering, a sort of work of the latter as naturally advocated the cause of his
which there are numerous examples at Pompeii. brother, who really seems to have been the least
(R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 437. ) in fault. In a letter which Cicero wrote to Atticus
POMPEIUS COLLE'GA. [COLLEGA. ] in B. c. 51 he gives an amusing account of one of
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their matrimonial squabbles, of which he was an POMPONIUS. 1. M. PuMPONIUS, one of the
eye-witness (ud Att. v. 1). When their son, tribunes of the plebs, elected at the abolition of the
young Quintus, grew up, he endeavoured to re- decemvirate, B. C. 419. (Liv. iii. 54. )
concile his parents, and was encouraged in his 2. M. POMPONIUs, consular tribune, B. C. 399,
filial task by both his uncles ; but he did not perhaps either a son or grandson of the preceding.
mect with much success; and Q. Cicero, after (Liv. v. 13. )
leading a miserable life with bis wife for almost 3. Q. POMPONIUs, perhaps a younger brother
twenty-four years, at length divorced her at the of the preceding. was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 395,
end of B. c. 45, or in the beginning of the follow- in which year he supported the views of the senate
ing year. (Corn. Nep. Att. 5 ; Cic. ad Att. i. 5, by opposing, in conjunction with his colleague, A.
v. l, vii. 1, 5, xiv. 10, et alibi, ad Q. Fr. iii. I, Virginiue, the proposition that a portion of the
&c. )
scnate and people should settle at Veii. He and
3. The daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus. She his colleague were, in consequence, accused two
is also called Caecilin, because her father was years afterwards, and compelled to pay a heavy
adopted by Q. Caecilius, and likewise Atticn. fine. (Liv. v. 29, comp. cc. 24, 25. )
She was born B. c. 51, after Cicero had left 4. M. POMPONIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C.
Italy for Cilicia. She is frequently mentioned in 362, brought an accusation against L. Manlius
Cicero's letters to Atticus, and seems at an early Imperiosus, who had been dictator in the preceding
age to bave given promise of future excellence. year, but was compelled to drop the accusation by
She was still quite young when she was married the son of Manlius, afterwards surnamed Tor-
to M. Vipsanius Agrippa. The marriage was ne- quatus, who obtained admittance into the tribune's
gotiated by M. Antony, the triumvir, probably in house, and threatened him with immediate death
B. C. 36. She was afterwards suspected of improper if he did not swear that he would abandon the
intercourse with the grammarian Q. Caecilius impeachment of his father. (Liv. vii. 4, 5; Cic.
de
Epirota, a freedman of her father, who instructed off. ii. 30. ; Val. Max. v. 4. $ 3; Appian, Samn.
her. Her subsequent history is not known. Her | 2. ) [TORQUATUS. ]
husband Agrippa married Marcella in B. c. 28, and 5. Sex. POMPONIUS, legatus of the consul Ti.
accordingly she must either have died or been Sempronius Longus in the first year of the first
divorced from her husband before that year. Her Punic war, B. c. 218. (Liv. xxi. 15. )
daughter Vipsania Agrippina married Tiberius, 6. M. POMPONIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C.
the successor of Augustus. (Cic. ad Atl. v. 19, 167, opposed, with his colleague M. Antonius, the
vi. 1, 2, 5, vii. 2, et alibi ; Corn. Nep. Att. 12 ; proposition of the praetor M. Jurentius Thalna,
Suet. Tib. 7, de Ilustr, Gramm. 16. )
that war should be declared against the Rhodians.
POMPO'NIA GRAECI'NA, the wife of A. (Liv. xlv. 21. ) Pomponius was praetor in B. C.
Plautius, was accused in the reign of Claudius of | 161, and in this year obtained a decree of the
practising religious worship unauthorised by the senate, by which philosophers and rhetoricians
state ; but her husband Plautius, who was allowed, were forbidden to live in Rome. (Suet. de clar.
on account of his victories in Britain, to judge her, Rhet. 1 ; Gell. xv. 11. )
in accordance with the old Roman law, declared 7. M. POMPONIUS, a Roman eques, was one of
her innocent. She was probably the daughter of the most intimate friends of C. Gracchus, and
P. Pomponius Graecinus, consul suffectus A. D. 16. distinguished himself by his fidelity to the latter
She was related to Julia, the daughter of Drusus, on the day of his death, B. c. 121. When Grac-
and granddaughter of Pomponia, the daughter of chus, despairing of his life, had retired to the
Atticus ; and she lived forty years after the death temple of Diana, and was going to kill himself
of Julia, who was executed by Claudius at the in- there, Pomponius and Licinius took his sword, and
stigation of Messalina. (Tac. Ann. xi. 32. ) induced him to fly. As they fled across the Sub-
POMPONIA RUFI'NA, a Vestal virgin in lician bridge, hotly pursued, Pomponius and Licinius
the reign of Caracalla, put to death for violation of turned round, in order to give their friend time for
her vow of chastity. (Dion Cass. Ixxvii. 16. ) escape, and they allowed no one to pass till they
POMPO'NIAGENS, plebeian. Towards the fell pierced with wounds. This is the account of
end of the republic the Pomponii, like other Plutarch ; the details are related a little differently
Roman gentes, traced their origin to the remote by other writers. (Plut. C. Gracch. 16, 17 ; Vell.
times of the Roman state. They pretended to be Pat. j. 6; Val. Max. iv. 7. $ 2; Aurel. Vict. de
descended from Pompo, one of the alleged sons of l'ir. II. 65; comp. Cic. de Div. ii. 29. )
Numa (Plut. Num. 21); and they accordingly 8. M. POMPONIUS, aedile B. C. 82, in the con.
placed the image of this king upon their coins. sulship of the younger Marius. In the scenic
In the earliest times the Pomponii were not dis games exhibited by him, the actress Galeria ap-
tinguished by any sumame ; and the only family peared, who was then a child of 12 years old, and
that rose to importance in the time of the republic who was again brought on the stage in A. D. 9, in
was that of MathO; the first member of which her 104th year, in the votive games in honour of
wbo obtained the consulship was M. Pomponius Augustus. (Plin. H. N. vii. 49. s. 48. )
Matho in B. c. 233. On coins we also find the 9. Cn. POMPONIUS, who perished in the civil
cognomens Molo, Musa and Rufus, but these war between Marius and Sulla, was an orator of
surnames do not occur in ancient writers. The some repute, and is reckoned by Cicero as holding
other cognomens in the time of the republic, such the next place to his two great contemporaries,
as Atticus, were not family names, but were C. Aurelius Cotta and P. Sulpicius Rufus. His
rather descriptive of particular individuals
. An oratory was characterised by great vehemence, and
alphabetical list of them is given below, as well as he did not express his meaning very clearly. (Cic.
of the cognomens in the imperial period, which Brut. 57, 62, 89, 90, de Orat. iii. 13. )
were rather numerous. (Comp. Drumann, Ges. 10. M. POMPONIUS, as he is called by Plutarch
chichte Roms, vol. v. p. 1, &c. )
(Lucull. 15. ), the commander of the cavalry of Lu-
!
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POMPONICS,
1
8
cullus in the third Mithridatic war. Ilis real of Gains. The same remark applies to Dig. 46.
name was Pompeius. [PUMPEIUS, No. 29. ) tit. 3. 6. 78, which is an extract from C. Cassius
11. M. POMPONIUS, one of the legates of Pom-made by Javolenus.
pey in the war against the pirates, B. c. 67, to whom The works of Pomponius are the Enchiridion,
Pompey assigned the superintendence of the gulfs which is not mentioned in the Florentine Index;
washing the south of Gaul and Liguria. (Appian, Variae Lectiones, of which the Index mentions
Withr. 95. )
only fifteen books, though the twenty-fifth, the
12. P. Pomponius, accompanied P. Clodius, thirty-fourth, and even the fortieth and forty-first
when he was murdered by Milo, B. C. 52. (Ascon. books are cited in the Digest (Dig. 8. tit. 5, s. 8.
in Mil. p. 33, ed. Orelli. )
$9); twenty books of Epistolae ; five books of
13. M. POMPONIUS, commanded the feet of Fideicommissa ; libri lectionum ad Q. Mucium ;
Caesar at Messana, the greater part of which was libri ad Plautium ; liber singularis regularum ;
burnt in B. C. 48, by C. Cassius Longinus (Caes. libri ad Sabinum ; libri V. SCtorum ; and the two
B. C. ii. 101. )
books of an Enchiridion, which is mentioned in
14. Pomposius, was proscribed by the trium the Index. Some other writings of Pomponius
virs in B.
