Gnaeus Pompey
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Pompey
in the texts
Consolation to Marcia
Roman general and political rival of Julius Caesar, mentioned as jealous of Caesar's greatness.
Before his eyes was already Gnaeus Pompey, who would brook with no even temper that anyone else be great in the commonwealth, and would set a limit upon advances which seemed grievous to him even when they grew for the common good.
Pompey, and a treacherous soldier consecrated among the monuments of the greatest of commanders?
A statue was being voted to be set up to Sejanus in Pompey's theatre, which Caesar was rebuilding after a fire;
Letters to Lucilius
Roman general, opposing Caesar in the civil war described by Seneca.
if Pompey, he will go into exile.
And of him too you may say that no less than Socrates he gave himself up, amid slaves, to liberty, unless perhaps you think that Gnaeus Pompey and Caesar and Crassus were the allies of liberty.
If you wish to grasp in your mind the image of that time, you will see on the one side the commons and the whole rabble bent upon revolution, on the other the aristocracy and the equestrian order, whatever there was in the state of sacred and chosen, and two left in the midst, the commonwealth and Cato.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman general whose death at sea is used as an example of how fear can suppress distress until safety is reached.
It was agreed that those who had seen Gnaeus Pompey falling under his wounds, although in that very most bitter and most wretched spectacle they feared for themselves, because they saw themselves surrounded by the enemy's fleet, then did nothing else but exhort the rowers and seek safety in flight;
On Benefits
Roman general and statesman, cited as an example of ingratitude for undermining the commonwealth despite his honors and later conquered by his rival.
5 Ungrateful was Pompey's very enemy and conqueror;