)
his election in opposition to Laelius by assuring 6.
his election in opposition to Laelius by assuring 6.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
14; most important wars, and was twice raised to the
Senec. de Clem. i. 9. ) She was with her brother consulship, but his name does not appear in the
Sextus in Sicily for some time, and she there Fasti. The same authority adds that he was put
made presents to the young Tiberius, subsequently to death by the emperor, but in such a manner
emperor, when his parents fled for refuge to the that he appeared to have perished by the hands of
island. (Suet. Tib. 6. ) As her brother Sextus robbers. (Spartian. Caracall. 3. ) (W. R. )
survived her, she must have died before B. C. 35. POMPEIANUS, TIB. CLAU'DIUS, the
(Senec. Consol. ad Polyb. 34. ).
son of a Roman knight originally from Antioch,
5. Daughter of Sex. Pompeius Magnus, the son rose to the highest dignities under M. Aurelius.
of the triumvir and of Scribonia. At the peace of | He was one of the legates despatched to oppose
Misenum in B. C. 39 she was betrothed to M. the barbarian Kelts from beyond the Rhine, when
Claudius Marcellus, the son of Octavia, the sister they threatened to burst into Italy [Pertinax] :
of Octavian, but was never married to him. She he stands in the Fasti as consul for a. D. 173, was
accompanied her father in his flight to Asia, B. C. suffectus probably in A. D. 176, and received in
36. (Appian, B. C. v. 73 ; Dion Cass. xlviii. 38, marriage Lucilla, the daughter of the emperor,
.
xlix. 11. ) She is not mentioned after this time, before the regular period of mourning for her first
but it has been conjectured by commentators, with husband L. Verus had expired. He was one of the
much probability, that she may have married trusty counsellors to whose charge the youthful
Scribonius Libo, and had by him a son, Scribonius Commodus was consigned, and one of the few who
Libo Drusus ; since Tacitus (Ann. ii. 27) calls escaped the cruel persecution of that brutal savage,
Pompeius, the triumvir, the proavus of Libo Drusus; although he openly refused to countenance his
Scribonia, the wife of Augustus, his amita ; and follies, or to pander to his vices. During this
the two young Caesars his consobrini. The descent unhappy period he passed his time chiefly in the
of Libo Drusus would then be, 1. Cn. Pompeius, country, excusing himself from appearing in public
the triumvir, proarus. 2. Sex. Pompeius, arus. on account of age and weakness of sight. Pertinax,
3. Pompeia, muter. 4. Libo Drusus.
who had served under his command, treated him
6. Of uncertain origin, the wife of P. Vatinius, with the greatest distinction, and Didius Julianus is
who was tribune, B. C. 59. She was still alive in said to have invited him to quit his retirement at
B. c. 45. (Cic. ad Fam. v. 11. )
Tarraco, and to ascend the throne. Lampridius
POMPEIA CELERI'NA, the mother-in-law would lead us to suppose that he actually fell a
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POMPEIUS.
POMPEIS.
victim to the cruelties of Commodus, but more | Laenas referred the matter to the senate, to which
trustworthy authorities represent him as having the Numantine legates accordhgly repaired. Pom-
lived on to the reign of Severus. (Dion Cass. peius persisted in the same lie; the senate declared
lxxi. 3, 20, lxxiii. 3; Herodian. i. 8. $ 6; Ca- the treaty invalid ; and the War was accordingly
pitolin. M. Aur. 20; Vulcat. Gallican. A vid. Cass. renewed. Pompeius escaped air punishment for
11; Lamprid. Commod. )
(W. R. ) this conduct in relation to the reaty: he was,
POMPEIA'NUS, CLAUDIUS QUINTIA'- however, accused shortly afterwards of extortion in
NUS, a young senator, husband of the daughter his province, but was fortunate enough to obtain
of Lucilla, was persuaded by his mother-in-law to an acquittal, although some of the Inost eminent
attempt the life of Commodus, with whom he lived men at Rome, such as Q. Metellus Macedonicus
on terms of familiar intimacy, and having failed and L. Metellus Calvus, bore witness against him.
was put to death. (Dion Cass. lxxii. 4, and note of|(Val. Max. viii. 5. $1; Cic. pro Fons. 7. ) His
Reimarus ; Herodian. i. 8 ; Lamprid. Commod. 4 ; want of success in Spain did not lose him the
Amm. Marc. xxix. 4. )
(W. R. ) favour of the people, for he was elected ceir sor in
POMPEIUS. In the following account we give B. c. 131 with Q. Metellus Macedonicus, the first
first the family of Q. Pompeius, consul B. c. 141, time that both censors were chosen from the ple. bs.
and next that of the triumvir. The lives of the (Appian, Hisp. 76—79 ; Liv. Epit. 54, 59; Oros.
various persons mentioned below are treated at v. 4 ; Cic. de Off. iii. 30, de Fiv. ii. 17. )
length by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. 4. Pompeius, is mentioned as one of the oppo-
p. 306, &c. ), to whom we refer our readers once nents of Tib. Gracchus in B. C. 133: he stated
for all. The Stemma on the opposite page is taken that, as he lived near Gracchus, he knew that
from Drumann, and is in some parts conjectural. Eudemus of Pergamum had given a diadem out of
1. L. POMPEIUS, tribune of the soldiers, B. C. the royal treasures and a purple robe to Gracchus,
171, in the army of the consul P. Crassus, when and he also promised to accuse the latter as soon
the latter was carrying on war against Perseus, as his year of office as tribune had expired. (Plut.
king of Macedonia (Liv. xlii. 66).
Tib, Gracch. 14 ; Oros. v. 8. ) Druinann makes
2. A. Pompeius, is said to have been a flute- this Pompeius the son of No. 3, and likewise tri-
player, a report probably invented by the aristo- bune of the plebs for B. c. 132; but although nej-
cracy for the purpose of degrading his son, a novusther of these suppositions is impossible, there is
homo (Plut. Reg. et Imperat. A popth. p. 200). still no authority for them. It is not impossible
3. Q. POMPEIUS, A. F. , the son of the preceding that this Pompeius is the same as the preceding;
[No. 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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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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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.
Senec. de Clem. i. 9. ) She was with her brother consulship, but his name does not appear in the
Sextus in Sicily for some time, and she there Fasti. The same authority adds that he was put
made presents to the young Tiberius, subsequently to death by the emperor, but in such a manner
emperor, when his parents fled for refuge to the that he appeared to have perished by the hands of
island. (Suet. Tib. 6. ) As her brother Sextus robbers. (Spartian. Caracall. 3. ) (W. R. )
survived her, she must have died before B. C. 35. POMPEIANUS, TIB. CLAU'DIUS, the
(Senec. Consol. ad Polyb. 34. ).
son of a Roman knight originally from Antioch,
5. Daughter of Sex. Pompeius Magnus, the son rose to the highest dignities under M. Aurelius.
of the triumvir and of Scribonia. At the peace of | He was one of the legates despatched to oppose
Misenum in B. C. 39 she was betrothed to M. the barbarian Kelts from beyond the Rhine, when
Claudius Marcellus, the son of Octavia, the sister they threatened to burst into Italy [Pertinax] :
of Octavian, but was never married to him. She he stands in the Fasti as consul for a. D. 173, was
accompanied her father in his flight to Asia, B. C. suffectus probably in A. D. 176, and received in
36. (Appian, B. C. v. 73 ; Dion Cass. xlviii. 38, marriage Lucilla, the daughter of the emperor,
.
xlix. 11. ) She is not mentioned after this time, before the regular period of mourning for her first
but it has been conjectured by commentators, with husband L. Verus had expired. He was one of the
much probability, that she may have married trusty counsellors to whose charge the youthful
Scribonius Libo, and had by him a son, Scribonius Commodus was consigned, and one of the few who
Libo Drusus ; since Tacitus (Ann. ii. 27) calls escaped the cruel persecution of that brutal savage,
Pompeius, the triumvir, the proavus of Libo Drusus; although he openly refused to countenance his
Scribonia, the wife of Augustus, his amita ; and follies, or to pander to his vices. During this
the two young Caesars his consobrini. The descent unhappy period he passed his time chiefly in the
of Libo Drusus would then be, 1. Cn. Pompeius, country, excusing himself from appearing in public
the triumvir, proarus. 2. Sex. Pompeius, arus. on account of age and weakness of sight. Pertinax,
3. Pompeia, muter. 4. Libo Drusus.
who had served under his command, treated him
6. Of uncertain origin, the wife of P. Vatinius, with the greatest distinction, and Didius Julianus is
who was tribune, B. C. 59. She was still alive in said to have invited him to quit his retirement at
B. c. 45. (Cic. ad Fam. v. 11. )
Tarraco, and to ascend the throne. Lampridius
POMPEIA CELERI'NA, the mother-in-law would lead us to suppose that he actually fell a
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474
POMPEIUS.
POMPEIS.
victim to the cruelties of Commodus, but more | Laenas referred the matter to the senate, to which
trustworthy authorities represent him as having the Numantine legates accordhgly repaired. Pom-
lived on to the reign of Severus. (Dion Cass. peius persisted in the same lie; the senate declared
lxxi. 3, 20, lxxiii. 3; Herodian. i. 8. $ 6; Ca- the treaty invalid ; and the War was accordingly
pitolin. M. Aur. 20; Vulcat. Gallican. A vid. Cass. renewed. Pompeius escaped air punishment for
11; Lamprid. Commod. )
(W. R. ) this conduct in relation to the reaty: he was,
POMPEIA'NUS, CLAUDIUS QUINTIA'- however, accused shortly afterwards of extortion in
NUS, a young senator, husband of the daughter his province, but was fortunate enough to obtain
of Lucilla, was persuaded by his mother-in-law to an acquittal, although some of the Inost eminent
attempt the life of Commodus, with whom he lived men at Rome, such as Q. Metellus Macedonicus
on terms of familiar intimacy, and having failed and L. Metellus Calvus, bore witness against him.
was put to death. (Dion Cass. lxxii. 4, and note of|(Val. Max. viii. 5. $1; Cic. pro Fons. 7. ) His
Reimarus ; Herodian. i. 8 ; Lamprid. Commod. 4 ; want of success in Spain did not lose him the
Amm. Marc. xxix. 4. )
(W. R. ) favour of the people, for he was elected ceir sor in
POMPEIUS. In the following account we give B. c. 131 with Q. Metellus Macedonicus, the first
first the family of Q. Pompeius, consul B. c. 141, time that both censors were chosen from the ple. bs.
and next that of the triumvir. The lives of the (Appian, Hisp. 76—79 ; Liv. Epit. 54, 59; Oros.
various persons mentioned below are treated at v. 4 ; Cic. de Off. iii. 30, de Fiv. ii. 17. )
length by Drumann (Geschichte Roms, vol. iv. 4. Pompeius, is mentioned as one of the oppo-
p. 306, &c. ), to whom we refer our readers once nents of Tib. Gracchus in B. C. 133: he stated
for all. The Stemma on the opposite page is taken that, as he lived near Gracchus, he knew that
from Drumann, and is in some parts conjectural. Eudemus of Pergamum had given a diadem out of
1. L. POMPEIUS, tribune of the soldiers, B. C. the royal treasures and a purple robe to Gracchus,
171, in the army of the consul P. Crassus, when and he also promised to accuse the latter as soon
the latter was carrying on war against Perseus, as his year of office as tribune had expired. (Plut.
king of Macedonia (Liv. xlii. 66).
Tib, Gracch. 14 ; Oros. v. 8. ) Druinann makes
2. A. Pompeius, is said to have been a flute- this Pompeius the son of No. 3, and likewise tri-
player, a report probably invented by the aristo- bune of the plebs for B. c. 132; but although nej-
cracy for the purpose of degrading his son, a novusther of these suppositions is impossible, there is
homo (Plut. Reg. et Imperat. A popth. p. 200). still no authority for them. It is not impossible
3. Q. POMPEIUS, A. F. , the son of the preceding that this Pompeius is the same as the preceding;
[No. 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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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.
