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	Pompeius Strabo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Strabo's son, the famous Pompey the Great, took the legions back to Picenum once again.
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Pompey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		His father, Pompey Strabo, was an important general and the first senator of the family, being elected consul in 89 BC.
		Strabo died in the conflicts between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, leaving young Pompey in control of his affairs and fortune.
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	Strabo
		Strabo (born 63 BC or 64 BC, died ca.
		Nowadays, Strabo is mostly famous for his Geographia, a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places all over the world as known to him.
		Strabo was born in a wealthy family from Amaseia (current-day Amasya) in Pontus, which became part of the Roman empire just around his birth.
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	Encyclopedia: Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo." A native of Sicily so clear sighted that he could see things at great distance as if they were nearby was also called "Strabo." See also Walahfrid Strabo and Theodoric Strabo.
		Nowadays, Strabo is mostly famous for his Geographika ("Geography"), a 17-book work containing history and descriptions of people and places all over the world as known to him.
		Strabo was born in a wealthy family from Amaseia (current-day Amasya, Turkey) in Pontus, which became part of the Roman empire just around the time of his birth.
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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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	Pompey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pompey was the son and heir of (Click link for more info and facts about Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo) Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum.
		Strabo was an important general and the first (A member of a senate) senator of the family, being elected (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consul in 89 BC.
		Strabo died in the conflicts between (Click link for more info and facts about Gaius Marius) Gaius Marius and (Click link for more info and facts about Lucius Cornelius Sulla) Lucius Cornelius Sulla, leaving young Pompey in control of his affairs and fortune.
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		Walafrid Strabo Walafrid Strabo (Walafrid the Squinter), c.809-849, German scholar, b.
		Pompey Pompey (Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus)pŏm´pē, 106 BC-48 BC, Roman general, the rival of Julius Caesar.
		Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 BC), a commander of equivocal reputation.
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	Pompeius Strabo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (died 87 BC), often referred to as Strabo or Pompey Strabo in English, was a (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman from the rural province of Picenum.
		He became the first of his branch of the Pompeii to achieve senatorial status in Rome, despite the anti-rural prejudice of the (Click link for more info and facts about Roman Senate) Roman Senate.
		Strabo's son, the famous (Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)) Pompey the Great, took the legions back to Picenum once again.
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	Encyclopedia: Pompeius Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strabo (squinty) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
		See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century) The Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) was the representative government of Rome and its territories from 510 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, sometimes placed at 44 BC (the year of Caesars appointment as perpetual...
		The Roman legion (from the Latin legio, meaning levy) was the basic military unit of ancient Rome.
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		BIOGRAPHY: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo triumphed after the Social War but had incurred general hatred because of cold-blooded duplicity during the troubles of 88 and 87.
		After Strabo's death, his son Pompey, who had served under him and inherited his dubiously won wealth, was protected by Cinna's government against his father's enemies.
		His first target, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, was defended by Quintus Hortensius, the leading advocate of the day, and was acquitted by the extortion-court jury, composed exclusively of senators.
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	Gnaeus Pompeius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		106-48 B.C. Cnaeus Pompeius was born on 29 September 106 B.C. in the rural, northern region of Picenum.
		Pompey Strabo was elected consul in 89 B.C. He fought first with Marius and then with Sulla in the Civil Wars of 88-87 B.C. At the age of seventeen his son, Gnaeus Pompeius, began to gain a military experience fighting with his father in the Civil Wars.
		It was also in this period that Gnaeus Pompeius acquired a protege of his own in a young staff officer from Picenum, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who came to view Cnaeus Pompey as his patron, if not his friend: two boys from Picenum trying to succeed in the Roman political system.
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	Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the verge of the Social War (91-88 BC), the Roman aristocracy and Senate were starting to feel fear for Marius' ambition, which had already given him five consulships in a row from 104 BC to 100 BC.
		In this last rebellion of the Italian allies, Sulla served with brilliance as a general, and outshone both Marius and the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (the father of Pompey).
		After a period of idleness, Sulla's army defeated the consular forces of Gnaeus Papirus Carbo in November, 82 BC at the battle of Colline Gate.
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	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-47 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		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.
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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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		Sulla oversaw the consular elections for 86, electing Gnaeus Octavius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
		Strabo was hesitant, because he had family ties to Cinna, but his desire for a second consulship was too strong and eventually he pledged support to Octavius, the Senate, and the defense of Rome.
		However, Strabo paused, hoping at this time that he would be granted his second consulship.
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	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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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	The Early Life Of Gnaeus Pompey And His Youth Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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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	Strabo
		Its value is uneven, in great part because Strabo attributed to Homer an accurate knowledge of places and peoples mentioned in his epics and because he virtually disregarded Herodotus' information, which was often firsthand.
		Walafrid Strabo - Walafrid Strabo (Walafrid the Squinter), c.809–849, German scholar, b.
		Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron.
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		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of
		Strabo was an important general and the first
		He met his wife Cornelia and his son Sextus Pompeius on the island of
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	Pompeius Strabo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		DECREE OF GNAEUS POMPEIUS STRABO, 90 B.C., Vol.
		Gnaeus Pompeius son of Sextus, commander-in-chief, in reward for valor made Spanish horsemen Roman citizens in camp at
		Gnaeus Pompeius son of Sextus, commander-in-chief, in reward for valor presented the Salluitan squadron in camp at
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	The early career of Pompey (from ancient Rome) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pompey was the son of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, who had triumphed after the Social War but had incurred general hatred because of cold-blooded duplicity during the troubles of 88 and 87.
		After Strabo's death, young Pompey, who had served under him and inherited his dubiously won wealth, was protected by Cinna's government against his father's enemies.
		In the stormy times that marked the close of the Roman republic, Gnaeus Pompeius was one of Rome's celebrated leaders.
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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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	Publius Sulpicius Rufus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		121 BC - 88 BC) was an orator and statesman of the Roman Republic, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs.
		Although he had impeached the turbulent tribune C. Norbanus, and resisted the proposal to repeal judicial sentences by popular decree, he did not hesitate to incur the displeasure of the Julian family by opposing the candidature for the consulship of C.
		Julius Caesar (Strabo Vopiscus), who had never been praetor and was consequently ineligible.
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		Its value is uneven, in great part because Strabo attributed to Homer an accurate knowledge of places and peoples mentioned...
		Pompeius Strabo is an important figure in Roman history...
		Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Appeles and Protogenes: cosmography and painting in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'
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	Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 138-78 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After decades in which various city-states on the Italian peninsula sought, and were denied, full political power in Rome, a series of revolts against Roman hegemony drew all her generals into the field.
		Sulla rose to increased prominence as one of the three generals who were successful in the bitter years of the Social War; he outshone Marius (who was now in his late 60’s) as well as his only other rival, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (father of Pompey the Great).
		En route to Rome (his second effort with an army behind him), Sulla was met by the ambitious young Gnaeus Pompeius, who brought him a small army of his own clients and his father's veterans; hereinafter, Pompey would firmly attach himself to Sulla’s star.
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	Publius Sulpicius Rufus
		Roman orator and statesman, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs.
		Although he had impeached the turbulent tribune C. Norbanus, and resisted the proposal to repeal judicial sentences by popular decree, he did not hesitate to incur the displeasure of the Julian family by opposing the candidature for the consulship of Julius Caesar (Strabo Vopiscus), who had never been praetor and was consequently ineligible.
		His franchise proposals, as far as the Italians were concerned, were a necessary measure of justice; but they had been carried by violence.
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