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494 POMPONIUS. POMPONIUS.
cullus in the third Mithridatic war. His real of Gaius. The same remark applies to Dig. 46.
name was Pompeius. [PoMPEIus, No. 29.] tit. 3. s. 78, which is an extract from C. Cassius
11. M. POMPONIUS, one of the legates of Pom- made by Javolenus.
pey in the war against the pirates, B. c. 67, to whom The works of Pomponius are the Enchiridion,
Pompey assigned the superintendence of the gulfs which is not mentioned in the Florentine Index;
washing the south of Gaul and Liguria. (Appian, Variae Lectiones, of which the Index mentions
Mit]er. 95.) only fifteen books, though the twenty-fifth, the
12. P. POMPONIUS, accompanied P. Clodius, thirty-fourth, and even the fortieth and forty-first
when he was murdered by Milo, B. c. 52. (Ascon. books are cited in the Digest (Dig. 8. tit. 5. s. 8.
in Mil. p. 33, ed. Orelli.) ~ 6); twenty books of Epistolae; five books of
13. M. POMtPONIUS, commanded the fleet of Fideicommissa; libri lectionum ad Q. Mucium;
Caesar at Messana, the greater part of which was libri ad Plautium; liber singularis regularimn;
burnt in B. C. 48, by C. Cassius Longinus (Caes. libri ad Sabinum; libri V. SCtorum; and the two
B. C. iii. 101.) books of an Enchiridion, which is mentioned in
14. PoMPoNIUS, was proscribed by the. trium- the Index. Some other writings of Pomponius
virs in B. C. 43. He was in Rome at the time, are cited. The extract from the single book of
but escaped by assuming the insignia of a praetor, the Enchiridion, De Origine Juris, is our chief auand accompanied by his slaves as lictors, left thority for the Roman jurists, to the time of JuRome, travelled through Italy as a public magis- lianus, and for our knowledge of the two sectae or
trate, and eventually crossed over to Sex. Pompey scholae. [CAPITO.]
in one of the triremes of the state. (Appian, B. C. The question of the two Pomponii is discussed by
iv. 45.) Valerius Maximus relates (vii. 3. ~ 9) W. Grotius, Vitae Jurisconsultorunl, with which may
this circumstance of Sentius Saturninus Vetulio be compared the works of Zilnmern and Puchta,
or Vetulo. which have been already referred to. [G. L.]
POMPO'NIUS, SEXTUS. Some writers are POMPO'NIUS A'TTICUS. [ATTICUS.]
of opinion that there was only one jurist of this POMPO'NIUS BASSUS. [BAssus.]
name: some think that there were two. (See the L. POMPO'NIUS BONONIENSIS, the most
references in Zimmern, Geschichte des Riimisc]en celebrated writer of Fabulae Atellanae, was a
Privatrechts, vol. i. p. 338, n. 6.) native of Bononia (Bologna) in northern Italy, as
Pomponius is often cited by Julianus (Dig. 3. his surname shows, and flourished in B. c. 91.
tit. 5. s. 6. ~ 6-8; Dig. 17. tit. 2. s. 63. ~ 9), (Euseb. Citron.) The nature of the Fabulae
and also under the name of Sextus. Atellanae is described at length in the Diet. of
Puchta (Cursus der Institutionen, vol. i. p. 444), Antiq.; and it is therefore only necessary to state
says there is no reason for assuming that there were here that these farces were originally not written,
two Pomponii. As to the passage (Dig. 28. tit. 5. but produced by the ready fertility of the Italian
s. 41), at the head of which stands the name of inlprovvisatori; and that it is probable that PomPomponius, he observes that the words " ut refert ponius and his contemporay Novius [Novius]
Sextus Pomponius," at the end of the extract, were the first to write regular dramas of this kind.
merely show that the compilers did not take the (Comp. Vell. Pat. ii. 9; Macrob. Saturn. i. 10.)
extract immediately from the work of Pomponius, Pomponius is frequently referred to by the Roman
but from some other work in which it was cited. grammarians, who have preserved the titles of
He adds, that this kind of repetition is not unusual many of his plays. The fragments which have thus
in the Digest; and he refers to another passage come down to us are collected by Bothe, Poetae
(Dig. 22. tit. 1. s. 26; Julianus, lib. vi. ex Minucio), Scenici Latin. vol. v., Fragqn. vol. ii. pp. 103-124,
in which the repetition is avoided, but in other and by Munk, De L. Pomnponio Bononiensi, Wc.,
respects it is exactly like Dig. 28. tit. 5. s. 41. Glogaviae, 1827. (Comp. Schober, Ueber die AtAs to the passage (Dig. 30. s. 32), " tam Sextus tellanischen Schauspiele, Leipzig, 1825.)
quam Pomponius," he observes that the expression There is an epigram of four lines, which Priscian
would be highly inapt, if the name Pomponius be- attributes to Pomponius (p. 602, ed. Putschius);
longed to both jurists. The weakest ground of all, but in the passage of Varro (de L. L. vii. 28, ed.
as he considers it, for supposing that there were Miiller), from which Priscian took it, the author
two Pomponii is that Julianus often cites Pompo- of the epigram is called Papinius.
niuse; and it is supposed that as Pomponins was a M. POMPO'NIUS DIONY/SIUS, a freedman
younger man than Julianus, and of less note, that of T. Pomponius Atticus, received his nomen
Julianus would not have cited him. fiom Atticus, his former master, according to the
Pomponius is the author of a long extract in the usual custom, but had the praenomen Marcus given
Digest (Dig. 1. tit. 1. s. 2), which is taken from him in compliment to M. Tullins Cicero (Cic. ad
a work of his in one book, entitled Enchiridion. Att. iv. 15, comp. iv. 8, ll, 13). It is erroHis period may be approximately determined from neously stated in Vol. I. p. 1039, a. init. that his
the fact that Julianus is the last of the jurists full name was T. Pomponius Dionysius.
whom he mentions, and the period of the activity POMPO'NIUS FESTUS. [FESTTS.]
of Julianus belongs to the reign of Hadrianus. POMPO'NIUS FLACCUS, [FLAcvs.]
The number of extracts from Pomponius in the P. POMPO'NITJS GRAEC1'NUS, consul sufDigest is 585. He was a Cassianus (Gaiuns ii. fectus, A. D. 16, was a friend and patron of Ovid,
218), " sed Juliano et Sexto placuit:" where who addressed to him three of the epistles which
Sextus means Sextus Pomponius. In another pas- were written by the poet from his place of banishsage he alludes to C. Cassius under the name of ment (ex Pont. i. 6, ii. 6, iv. 9). This Pomponius
Caius noster (Dig. 45. tit. 3. s. 39); for in this Graecinus was the brother of Pomponius Flaccus
passage, and in a passage of Julianus (Dig. 24. [FLACCUS, PoauPONIus, No. 2], and probably also
tit. 3. s. 59), Caius or Gains means C. Cassius, the father of the Pomponia Graecina, who lived in
and not the later jurist, now known by the name the reign of Claudius. [POMPONIA GRAECINA.]