Pompey
CNEIUS POMPEIUS MAGNUS, son of Pompeius Strabo, a Roman general; born in 106 в. c. He distinguished himself against the ene mies of the Roman senate, both within the state and without, and at last fell in the struggle against Cæsar for absolute power. Like his father, serving against Marius, Pompey ranged himself with the aristocratic party of the republic. He was in his 23d year only when he raised three complete legions, 60,000 men, at his own expense, and took the field in behalf of Sylla. By his 26th year Pompey had defeated the remains of the Marian party in Cisalpine Gaul, Sicily, POMPEY THE GREAT and Africa, and on his return to Rome, 83 B. c., was hailed Magnus-the great -by Sylla. On the death of Sylla, in 78 в. c., Pompey went as proconsul to Spain, where the plebeian war was continued by Sertorius, and after a four years' arduous struggle, he remained master of the field, his opponent having been betrayed and assassinated. He returned to Italy in time to give the fin- PONCE ishing blow to the similar victories of Crassus, and in 70 B. c. Pompey and Crassus were elected consuls. In the year 67 B. C., he destroyed the lawless bands infesting the coasts of the Medi- terranean; was made absolute dictator in the East, and superseded Lucullus in the command against Mithridates. The latter he completely routed in 66 B. c., and becoming master of Asia Minor, pur- sued his conquests through Syria and terranean; was made absolute dictator in the East, and superseded Lucullus in the command against Mithridates. The latter he completely routed in 66 B. C., and becoming master of Asia Minor, pursued his conquests through Syria and Palestine as far as the Red Sea. In 60 B. C. he joined Cæsar and Crassus in the triumvirate, the former of whom gave him his daughter Julia in marriage.
Succeeding events caused Pompey to triumvirate, the former of whom gave him his daughter Julia in marriage. with him, as the representative of the patrician republic, went Cato, the honest enemy of the ambition of Cæsar. In 54 B. c. Julia died; in the year following, Crassus was slain in Asia; and now the hostility between Cæsar and Pompey rapidly developed itself. The former having applied for the consulship, refused to present himself in Rome as a private citizen, and a decree of the senate declared him a public enemy unless he resigned his command. Instead of doing so, Cæsar crossed the Rubicon with his troops , 49 B. C., and Pompey, accompanied by Cato, Cicero, and other nobles used of Rome, fell back on Greece, where the great battle of Pharsalia decided his fate. Pompey was advised to seek an asylum in Egypt, then ruled by a sovereign he had protected, Ptolemy XIV. He was received with pretended friendship, but treacherously murdered as soon as he had stepped ashore, 48 B. c., and his head being cut off, it was sent to Cæsar, who turned away from it and could not restrain his tears. Pompey fell, and with him the republic of Rome. against Cæsar, was defeated and killed at Munda, 45′ в. c.
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