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4'76 POXMPEIUS. POMPEIUS.
shortly after his arrival in the camp, having pre- was feared that the slaves in Campania and
viously received him without opposition. [See Apulia might rise in support of Catilineo In B.C.
below, No. 21.] Cicero mentions Pompeius Rufus 61 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 inhis 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. Lael. 1. pro alive some years afterwards, for we find him bearCluent. 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. Cut. 30;
may perhaps have been a younger son of No. 4. Cic. pro Cael. 30.)
(Plut. lMar. 17.) 14. CN. POArPEIUS, 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. PpMPrIUS, son of the preceding, marof Sulpicius and Marius in the forum in B. -C. 88 ried Lucilia, a sister of the poet C. Lucilius, ewho
(Appian, B. C. i. 56; Plut. Suill. 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. PoMPEIUS 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 prae[MAESSALLA, 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,
(sl. 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, Philisop. 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 xiii. 49).
murder of Clodius by Milo on the 20th of January 19. SEX. PomREIUS SEX. F., son of No. 17,
still further favoured the views of the triumvir; was consul B. C. 35, with L. Cornificius, in which
Rufus 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 emperpr 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 Veil. Pat. ii. 123). Sex Pompeius seems to have
colleagues, M. Caslius, of violating the very law been a patron of literature. Ovid addressed him
D)e Vi, which he had taken so active a part in several letters during his exile (ex Pont. iv. 1. 4,
passing. lie was condemned, and lived in exile at 5, 15); and it was probably this same Sex. PomBau.i in Campania. Here he was in great pecu- peius, whom the writer Valerius Maxinmus accomniary difficulties, till M. Caelius, who had accused panied to Asia, and of whom he speaks as his Alexblin, generously compelled his mother Cornelia to ander. (Val. Max. ii. 6. ~ 8, iv. 7. extern. ~ 2.)
surrender to him his paternal property. Tilhe last 21. CN. PoMPEIUS SEX. 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. iv. 16. ~ 8; Dion gentes, is said to have been first given to his cook,
Cass. xl. 45, 49, 55; Ascon. in Cic. lllon. passim; Menogenes, and then to have been applied to
Caelius, (ad Facm. viii.. 1. ~ 4; Val. Max. iv. 2. Pompeius himself, from his likeness to his slave
7.) (Plin. H. N. vii. 10. s. 12; Val. Max. ix. 14. ~ 2).
i0. POMPEIA, daughter of No. 8. [POMPEIA,'Whether this be true or false, Pompeius at all
No. 2.] events adopted the name; and it appears on his
11. Q. POmIPEIUS BITHYNICUS, probably son of coins, and in the Fasti. All the ancient writers
No. 7. [BITHYNICUS, No. 1.] agree in giving this Pompeius a thoroughly bad
12. A. POMPEIUS BITHYNICUS, son of No. 11. character. His name is first mentioned in con[BITHYNICUS, No. 2.] nection with a discreditable matter. He had been
13. Q. PoMP'Eus RUFUS, praetor.B. c. 63. His quaestor in Sardinia in B. C. 103, under the procognomen shows that he belonged to the preceding praetor T. Albucius, against whom he collected
family, but his descent is quite uncertain. In his materials for an accusation, although the Romans
praetorship he was sent to Capua, where he re- regarded the relation between praetor and quaestor
mained part of the following year, because it as a sacred one, like that between father and