A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

492 POMPEIUS. POMl')(N IA.
to this title, and his defeat of the fleet of Augustus POMPEITTS FESTUS. [FESTUS.J
off Sicily enabled him to assume it a second time. POMPEIUS GALLUS. [GAILUS.]
The legend on the obverse, PRAEFECTUS CLASSIS POMPEIUS GROSPHUS. [GROSPHTUS.]
ET ORANE ARITrMAE EX S. c., which appears on POMPEIUS LENAEUS. [LENAEUS.]
many of the coins of Sextus, has reference to the POMPEIUS LONGI'NUS. LLoNGINUS.]
decree of the senate which conferred upon him the POMPEIUS MACER. [M1IACER.]
command of the fleet shortly after the death of POMPEIUS MA'CULA. [MACULA.]
Julius Caesar, as has been already related. The POMPEIUS PAULI'NUS. [PAULINUS.]
third coin is intended to indicate Pompey's com- POMPEIUSPROPINQU US. [PROPINQUUS.]
mand of the sea. It represents on the obverse.a POMPEIUS RHEGI'NUS. [RHEGINUS.]
vwar-galley with a column, on which Neptune is POMPEIUS SATURNI'NUS. [SATURNIstanding, and on the reverse Scylla holding an oar NUS.]
in her two hands, and in the act of striking. (Eckhel, POMPEIUS THEO'PHANES. [THEOvol. vi. pp. 26-33.) PHANES.]
26. POMPEIA, the daughter of the triumvir, POMPEIUS TROGUS. [JUSTINUS,P. 680.]
married Faustus Sulla. [POMPEIA, No. 4.] POMPEIUS VARUS. [VARUS.]
27. POMPEIA, the daughter of Sex. Pompeius, PQMPEIUS VINDULLUS. [VINDULLUS.]
No. 25. [POMPEIA, No. 5.] POMPEIUS VOPISCUS. [VoPrscvs.]
28. CN. POMPEIUS MAGNUS, was descended PO'MPIDAS (rlIolr[8l7s), a Theban, who was
from the family of the triumvir, but his pedigree is one of the leaders of the party in his native city
not stated by the ancient writers. He was, most favourable to the Roman interests. On this account
probably, a son of M. Licinius Crassus, Cos. A. D. he was driven into exile, when Ismenias and his
29, and Scribonia; the latter of whom was a partizans obtained the direction of affairs, and condaughter of Scribonius Libo and of Pompeia, the cluded a treaty with Perseus. He afterwards took
daughter of Sex. Pompey, who was a son of the a prominent part in the accusation of Ismenias and
triumvir. He would thus have been a great-grand- his colleagues'before the Roman deputy, Q. Marcius
son of Sex. Pompey, and great-great-grandson of Philippus, at Chalcis, B.C. 171. (Polyb. xxvii.
the triumvir [see Stemma on p. 475]. It was 2.) [E. H. B.]
not uncommon in the imperial period for persons POMPI'LIA GENS, is early mentioned.
to drop their paternal names, and assume the There was a tribune of the plebs of the name of
names of their maternal ancestors. Caligula would Sex. Pompilius in B. c. 420 (Liv. iv. 44); and
not allow this Pompey to use the cognomen of Q. Cicero speaks (de Pet. Cons. 3) of a Roman
Magnus; but it was restored to him by the em- eques of the name, who was a friend of Catiline
peror Claudius, whose daughterAntonia he married. but these are almost the only Pompilii of whom
lie was sent by his father-in-law to the senate to we have any account, with the exception of the
proclaim his victory over Britain. He was sub- grammarian mentioned below. The gentes, which
sequently put to death by Claudius, at the instiga- traced their descent from Numa Pompilius, the
tion of Messalina. (Dion Cass. lx. 5, 21, 29; second king of Rome, bore other names. [CALZonar. xi. 9; Suet. Cal. 35, Claud. 27, 29; Senec. PURNaIA GENS; POMPONIA GENS.]
Apocol. Claud.) M. POMPI'LIUS ANDRONI'CUS, was a
29. M. POMPELUS, the commander of the cavalry Syrian by birth, and taught rhetoric at Rome in
under Lucullus, in the thirdYMithridatic war. He the former half of the first century before Christ,
was wounded and taken prisoner (Appian, Mitlsr. but in consequence of his indolent habits he was
79; Memnon, 45, ed. Orelli). Plutarch calls him eclipsed by Antonius Gnipho and other gramPomponius (Lucull. 15), which Schweigh'auser has marians, and accordingly retired to Cumae, where
introduced into the text of Appian, though all the he composed many works. His most celebrated
MSS. of Appian have Pompeius. work was entitled Annaliuns Ennii Elenchi, but
30. CN. PoMPEIUS, served in Caesar's army in the exact meaning of Elenchi is a disputed point.
Gaul, under the legate Q. Titurius, in B. c. 54. The elder Pliny uses it to signify a list of contents
(Caes. B. G. v. 36.) to his work on Natural History. (Suet. de Ill.
31. CN. POMPEIus, consul suffectus from the Gramm. 8.)
1st of October, B. c. 31 (Fasti). POMPO'NIA. 1. Wife of P. Cornelius Scipio,
POMPEIUS, a Latin grammarian of uncertain consul B. c. 218, and mother of P. Scipio Africanus
date, probably lived before Servius and Cassio- the elder. (Sil. Ital. xiii. 615; comp. Gell. vii. 1.)
dorus, as these writers appear to have made some 2. The sister of T. Pomponius Atticus, was
use of his works. He wrote, 1. ComLmentuno artis married to Q. Cicero, the brother of the orator..Donati, on the different parts of speech, in thirty- The marriage was effected through the mediation
one sections, and 2. Commentariolus in librum of M. Cicero, the great friend of Atticus, B. c. 68,
Donati de Barbaris et Metaplasmis, in six sections. but it proved an extremely unhappy one. PomBoth these works were published, for the first poutia seems to have been of a quarrelsome distime, by Lindemann, Leipzig, 1821. position, and the husband and wife were on bad
POMPEIUS CATUSSA, an artist, whose terms almost from the day of their marriage.
name is found on a monument which he erected to Their matrimonial disputes gave Cicero great
his wife's memory, and which is now in the mu- trouble and uneasiness. His letters to Atticus
seum at Lyon. He is described in the inscription frequently contain allusions to the subject. His
as a citizen of Sequana, and a rector, that is, one of friend naturally thought his sister ill used, and
those artists who decorated the interiors of houses besought Cicero to interpose on her behalf; but
with ornamental plastering, a sort of work of the latter as naturally advocated the cause of his
which there are numerous examples at Pompeii. brother, who really seems to have been the least
(R. Rochette, Lettre a M. Sc/lorn, p. 437.) in fault. In a letter which Cicero wrote to Atticus
POMPEIUS COLLE'GA. [COLLEGA.] in B. C. 51 he gives an amusing account of one of