Pomona
A nymph at Rome, who was supposed to preside over gardens and to be the goddess of fruit trees.
Pompeii or Pompeium. A town of Campania.
It was partly destroyed by an earthquake A. D. 63, and sixteen years afterward it was overwhelmed by ashes and lava from an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Herculaneum, in its vicinity, shared the same fate.
Pompeius, Cneius. Son of Pompeius Strabo 15 and Lucilia, surnamed Magnus from his exploits. In the contentions which existed between Marius and Sylla, Pompey linked himself with the latter. Subsequently he united his interest with that of Caesar and Crassus, thus forming the first triumvirate.
A breach soon occurred, and at the great battle of Pharsalia, where the forces of Caesar and Pompey met, the latter was totally defeated, and fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated in the fifty-eighth year of his age, B. c. 48. He left two sons, Cneius and Sextus, who at their father's death were masters of a powerful army with which they opposed: Caesar, but were defeated at the battle of Munda, where Cneius was slain.
Sextus escaped, and was put to death by Antony about в. c. 35.
Pontus Euxinus, or simply Pontus (The Black Sea). The great inland sea inclosed by Asia Minor on the south, Colchis on the east, Sarmatia on the north, and Dacia and Thracia on the west, and having no other outlet than the narrow Bosporus Thracius in its southwest corner. ason tint to