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When Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, thus starting a civil war, Gnaeus followed his father in their escape to the East, as did most of the conservative senators.
Gnaeus escaped once again, this time to the Balearic Islands, where he joined Sextus.
Sextus Pompeius was able to keep one step ahead of his enemies, and outlived his older brother for a number of years.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a Gnaeus Pompeius was the oldest son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) by his third wife, Mucia Tertia.
Pompey's army lost the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC and Pompey himself had to run for his life, only to be murdered in Egypt on September 29 of the same year.
Within a few weeks, Gnaeus Pompeius was caught and executed for treason.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus - Wikipedia
Pompeius ließ sich den Oberbefehl gegen die Piraten übertragen, die zu dieser Zeit das Mittelmeer unsicher machten, und besiegte sie, gestützt auf übergreifende Vollmachten, in wenigen Monaten.
Doch Pompeius erkannte, dass seine Streitkräfte zu schwach waren, um Italien zu halten, und setzte mit einem großen Teil der Senatoren nach Griechenland über.
Pompeius versuchte, eine Entscheidungsschlacht zu vermeiden, wurde aber von den Senatoren dazu gezwungen.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Battle_of_Munda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After this victory, and the death of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey the Great's oldest son), Caesar was free to return to Rome and govern as dictator.
Led by Titus Labienus, a talented general, and the brothers Sextus and Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey's sons), the conservatives had used the resources of Hispania to levy an army of thirteen legions.
Gnaeus Pompeius had to look for cover on land, but soon was spotted and executed.
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Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey, was a Roman general from the late Republic (1st century BC).
Sextus Pompeius was the youngest son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) by his third wife, Mucia Tertia.
Sextus Pompeius was caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial (an illegal act since Sextus was a Roman citizen) by order of Marcus Titius, Antony's minion.
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 Battle of Munda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Led by Titus Labienus, a talented general, and the brothers Sextus and Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey's sons), the conservatives had all the resources of Hispania to use and an recently levied army of 13 legions.
Julius Caesar followed the Pompeius brothers from the Africa provinces to Hispania.
Titus Labienus was one of the deceased but the brothers Sextus and Gnaeus Pompeius managed to escape to modern Cordoba.
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 Comparision between Caius Iulius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
The gens Pompeia is of popular (plebea) origin and Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (father of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) belongs to the enriched bourgeoisie and possesses many lands and adhesions in the territory of Ausculum.
Pompeius is a man predestined to the happening and Lucius Cornelius Sulla (dictator legibus scribundis and rei publicae constituendae)like him.
Pompeius begins to fight cum imperium at 26 years old in Africa and after we see him always winner in the Bellum Hispanum, in the Bellum Pirathicum and in the Bellum Mithridaticum.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, thus starting a civil war, Gnaeus followed their father in his escape to the East, as most of the conservative senators.
Gnaeus escapes again, this time to the Balearic Islands, where he meets Sextus.
Sextus Pompeius runs again and outlives his older brother for a number of years.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC "He has nothing wind-minded about him, nothing that is not abject and time-serving...
This has been so, from the earliest days when Pompeius, the confident world conqueror, indulgently viewed the up-and-coming young Caesar's efforts to win fame, to the final battle of Pharsalus, in which Pompey surely knew he was likely to be destroyed by his erstwhile protégé.
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.
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 Pompey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is best known in history as a member of the First Triumvirate with Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus.
Gnaeus Pompeius was born in 106 B.C.E. in the northern Italian town of Picenum.
He learned his military skills from his father, Pompeius Stabo and fought under his leadership at the age of 17 during the Social Wars.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius was the oldest son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) byhis third wife, Mucia Tertia.
Pompey's army lost the battle ofPharsalus in 48 BC and Pompey himself had to run for his life, only to be murdered inEgypt on September 29 of the same year.
Gnaeus escaped once again, this time to the BalearicIslands, where he joined Sextus.
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 Theater of Pompey - Theatrum Pompei Project
Concerning the end of Pompeius there was never any doubt to me. For such a great hopelessness of his circumstances seized the minds of all kings and peoples that wherever he came I knew that this was going to be [his fate].
Gnaeus Pompeius my contemporary, destined by nature to pre-eminence, would have enjoyed greater glory for eloquence had not ambition for still greater glory drawn him off to the prizes of a military career.
Pompeius, however, is the one who must be held accountable.
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 Pompey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article refers to the prominent military leader and politician of the late Roman republic, who also had descendants named Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born on September 29, 106 BC, as the son or heir of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum.
Though patrician by birth, their branch of the Pompeius family was traditionally provincial, making them the inevitable subject of prejudice from the Roman elite.
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 Pompey biography
He was a son of Gnæus Pompeius Strabo.
On the death of his father, in 87 b.c., Pompeius, then only 19 years of age, was left without a protector, and during the temporary triumph of the Marian party he was for some time in considerable danger.
During the rest of the war he conducted himself with great prudence and valor and with such remarkable success that, on the restoration of peace in Italy, the conduct of the war against the remains of the Marian faction in Africa and Sicily was intrusted to him.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born in 106 BC in Rome
He was the son of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo who became consul in 89 BC By the age of 17 he was helping his father campaign and was involved in the military
In 84 BC Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus led three legions to defeat the Marian party in Africa and Sicily
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 Gnaeus Pompeius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cnaeus Pompeius was born on 29 September 106 B.C. in the rural, northern region of Picenum.
That he was of a somewhat provincial background tained him throughout his political career as he competed against the most powerful patricians of Roma which was compounded by the lack of a long senatorial pedigree.
His father was Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, one of the most wealthy Romans, who had but 35 years earlier raised his family into the senatorial ranks.
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 Encyclopedia: Gnaeus Pompeius
Her mother was a Licinia that divorced her father to marry Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, in a scandal...
Presumed course of the Rubicon The Rubicon (Rubico, in Italian Rubicone) is an ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy.
The Roman legion (from the Latin legio, meaning levy) was the basic military unit of ancient Rome.
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 R-MC Academics: Classics
A. Born 106 BC to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
Gnaeus Pompey was a key figure in this time of Rome's history.
Pompey was born in 106 BC to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo who was killed in battle during the civil war.
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-Gnaeus Pompeius, better known as Pompey, was born on September 29, 106 BC.
-Civil war between Gnaeus Marius and Lucius Sulla, Pompey sided with Sulla, who made some vary impressive defeats in Africa and Sicily.
-Gnaeus Pompeius died in 48 BC, thus ending the first Triumvirate.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Both boys grew up in the shade of his father, one of Rome's best generals and originally non-conservative politician who drifted to the more traditional faction when Julius_Caesar became a threat.
Pompey's army lost the battle_of_Pharsalus in 48_BC and Pompey himself had to run for his life, only to be murdered in Egypt on September_29 of the same year.
Gnaeus escaped once again, this time to the Balearic_Islands, where he joined Sextus.
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 GNAEUS POMPEIUS TROGUS - LoveToKnow Article on GNAEUS POMPEIUS TROGUS
GNAEUS POMPEIUS TROGUS - LoveToKnow Article on GNAEUS POMPEIUS TROGUS
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 TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS - Online Information article about TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS
influence be obtained the Roman citizenship; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor.
Heeren, De Trogi P. fontibus et auctoritate (prefixed to C. Frotscher's edition of Justin); A. Enmanx on the authorities used by.Trogus for Greek and Sicilian history (188o); A. von See also:
des Pompeius Trogus (1857) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (2nd ed., 1899), ii., where all that is known of Timagenes is given; See also:
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 Pompey : Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
terms defined : Pompey : Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (born Rome, 106 B. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (born Rome, 106 B.C., died September 28, 48 B.C.) known in the English-speaking world as Pompey the Great, was a leading general of the late Roman Republic and chief rival to Julius Caesar, although they served together in the First Triumvirate.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-48 BC
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During his life (106-47 BC), Pompey "the Great" was often close to being dictator of Rome, but in the end was vanguished by Caesar in the struggle for ultimate power.
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was one of the greatest generals and administrators in Roman history, but in his long career was intricately involved in Roman politics.
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 Pompeius Strabo - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (died 87 BC), whose cognomen means "Squinty", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo the geographer.
Pompeius Strabo was a Roman from the rural Italian district of Picenum, that lay between the Apennines and the Adriatic.
He became the first of his branch of the gens Pompeii to achieve senatorial status in Rome, despite the anti-rural prejudice of the Roman Senate.
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 Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, 1r del siglo historiador romano A.C., decended de la tribu céltica del Vocontii en Gallia Narbonensis, casi contemporáneo con Livy, prosperó durante la edad de Augustus.
Su abuelo desempen'ó servicios en la guerra contra Sertorius con Pompey, con que influencia se obtenga la ciudadanía romana; por lo tanto el nombre Pompeius, adoptado como símbolo de la gratitud a su benefactor.
English version: Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus Next: Quintus Sertorius Up
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Pompey was born Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in Rome on September 29, 106 BC, into a senatorial family.
His father, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, was consul in 89 BC.
How Gnaeus Pompey Began His Career At the age of seventeen Pompey fought, along with his father, on the side of Lucius Cornelius Sulla against the faction of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
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