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POMPETA. POOMPETANUS. 473
(De L. L. vii. 45) that a special priest, tnder the of the younger Pliny, to whom one of his letters is
name off JlCa1en Pomo)nalis, was appointed to attend addressed. (Ep. i. 4.)
to her service (comp. Plin. HI. N. xxiii. 1). It is POMPEIA MACRI'NA, descended from Pomnot impossible that Pomona may in reality be peius Theophanes, was the daughter of Pompeius
nothing but the personification of one of the attri- Macer, and was exiled by Tiberius A. D. 33. (Tac.
butes of Ops. (Hartung, Die Relig. d. Rsm. vol. Ann. vi. 18.)
ii. p. 133, &c.) [L. S.] POMPEIA PAULI'NA. [PAULINA, No. 3.]
POMPAE'DIUS SILO. [SILO.] POMPEIA GENS, plebeian, is not mentioned
POMPEIA. 1. The daughter of Q. Pompeius, till the second century before the Christian aera:
consul B.C. 141 [POMPEIUS, No. 3], married C. the first member of it who obtained the consuls
Sicinius. (Cic. Brut. 76.) ship, Q. Pompeius, in B. c. 141, is described as a
2. The daughter of Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of man of a humble and obscure origin (Cic. Yerr.
the consul of B.C. 88 [POMPEIIJS, No. 8], and of v. 70, pro Muren. 7, Brut. 25). It is expressly
Cornelia, the daughter of the dictator Sulla. She stated that there were two or three distinct families
married C. Caesar, subsequently the dictator, in of the Pompeii under the republic (Vell. Pat. ii.
B. C. 67, but was divorced by him in B. C. 61, because 21); and we can trace two, one of which was
she was suspected of intriguing with Clodius, who brought into celebrity by Q. Pompeius, the consul
stealthily introduced himself into her husband's of B. c. 141, and the other is still better known as
house while she was celebrating the mysteries of that to which the triumvir belonged. In the forthe Bona Dea. (Suet. Caes. 6; Plut. Caes. 5, 10; mer family we find the surname of Rufus; in the
Dion Cass. xxxvii. 45.) latter, the father of the triumvir was distinguished
3. The sister of the triumvir, married C. Mem- by the personal cognomen of Strabo, and the trimius, who commanded in Sicily under her brother, umvir himself gained that of Magnus, which he
in B. C. 81, and went as his quaestor into Spain, handed down to his children as an hereditary surin the war against Sertorius, in which he was name. Beside these cognomens we have on coins
killed, B.c. 75. (Plut. Pomp. 11, Sert. 21; Cic. Faustulus as a surname of a Sex. Pompeius, who
pro Balb. 2; Oros. v. 23.) is otherwise unknown, and Pius as a surname of
4. Daughter of the triumvir by his third wife Sextus, the son of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, to desigMucia. Wrhen her father, in B. C. 59, married nate him as the avenger of his father and brother.
Julia, the daughter of Julius Caesar, she was pro- (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 280, &c.) But as all the members
mised to Servilius Caepio, to whom Julia had of these families are usually spoken of under their
been already betrothed. She did not, however, gentile name, and not under their cognomens, they
marry Caepio, but Faustus Sulla, the son of the are given below under POMPrIus. In addition to
dictator, to whom she had likewise been previously the cognomens already mentioned, we find many
betrothed. Her husband perished in the African others, borne for the most part by freedmen or
war, B. c. 46, and she and her children fell into provincials, who had received the Ronlan franchise
the hands of Caesar, who, however, dismissed them from the Pompeii: of these an alphabetical list is
in safety. (Plut. Caes. 14, Pomp. 47; Dion Cass. given below.
xlii. 13; Auct. Bell. Afric. 95.) She subsequently POMPEIA'NUS, son of Lucilla and Claudius
married L. Cornelius Cinna, and her son by this Pompeianus. We are told by Spartianus that he
marriage, Cn. Cinna Magnus, entered into a con- was employed by Caracalla in the conduct of the
spiracy against Augustus (Dion Cass. lv. 14; most important wars, and was twice raised to the
Senec. de Clema. 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. POMPEIA'NUS, TIB. CLAU'DIUS, the
(Senec. Consol. ad l'olyb. 34.) son of a Roman knight originally from Antioch,
5. Daulghter 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 cruet 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. Cun. Pompeius, country, excusing himself from appearing in public
the triumvir, proavus. 2. Sex. Pompeius, avus. on account of age and weakness of sight. Pertinax,
3. Pompeia, mater. 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. 1].) Tarraco, and to ascend the throne. Lampridius
POMPEIA CELERI'NA, the mother-in-law would lead us to suppose that he actually fell a