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| | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | YOUTH TO CONSULATE, 106-70 BC Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born on September 29, 106 BC, into a relatively recent senatorial family: the Pompei had only achieved a first consulship some 35 years earlier. |
 | | His father, Pompey Strabo, was elected consul in 89 BC, and was a notable general who fought first with Marius, then with Sulla in the civil wars of 88-87 BC. |
 | | The southern map of Pompey's command, 67 BC Pompey was then nominated to replace Lucullus in the Mithridatic War, essentially entrusted, single-handed, with the conquest and reorganization of the entire Eastern Mediterranean and beyond. |
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