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	Definition of Pompeius Strabo
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, often referred to as Strabo or Pompey Strabo in English, was a Roman from the rural province of Picenum.
		After proving his military talent, Strabo climbed the cursus honorum and became consul in the year 89 BC, in the midst of the Social War.
		Strabo commanded Roman forces against the Italian Allies in the northern part of Italy.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Pompeius_Strabo (226 words)

	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.
		After proving his military talent, Strabo climbed the cursus honorum and became propraetor in Sicily 93 BC and consul in the year 89 BC, in the midst of the Social War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pompeius_Strabo (310 words)

	Pompeius Strabo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, often referred to as Strabo or Pompey Strabo in English, was a Roman from the rural province of Picenum.
		After proving his military talent, Strabo climbed the cursus honorum and became consul in the year 89 BC, in the midst of the Social War.
		Strabo's son, the famous Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), took the legions back to Picenum once again.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Pompeius_Strabo (180 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
		Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known in English as Pompey (September 29 106 BC, Picenum - September 29 48 BC, Egypt) was a Roman general and politician.
		Pompey was the son and heir of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian city of Picenum.
		Strabo was an important general and the first senator of the family, being elected consul in 89 BC.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gnaeus-Pompeius-Strabo (353 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Strabo
		Probably Strabo was then in Rome; the fact that his work passed unnoticed by Roman writers such as the elder Pliny does not prove the contrary.
		Again, Strabo may be censured for discarding the statements of Pytheas respecting the west and north of Europe, accepted as they had been by Eratosthenes.
		Strabo chiefly employed Greek authorities (the Alexandrian geographers Polybius, Posidonius and Theophanes of Mytilene, the companion of Pompey) and made comparatively little use of Roman authorities.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Strabo (1480 words)

	Pompey Biography
		Pompey was the son and heir of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian city of Picenum.
		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.
	www.the-planets.com /star-biography/Pompey_Biography.htm (2204 words)

	Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo From Sterwiki Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (das heisst der Schielende) war ein romischer Politiker aus der landlichen Region Picenum.
		Strabo belagerte Rom, starb aber, bevor eine Schlacht geschlagen wurde.
		Strabos Sohn, der beruhmte Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, fuhrte seine Legionen wieder zuruck nach Picenum.
	www.news-from-newspapers.com /de/Wikipedia.org/2005/02/04/Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo.html (154 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 3
		Political affinity with Pompeius Strabo in 89 may seem surprising given that Sulpicius was closely linked during the nineties with those eminent supporters of Drusus who met at Tusculum in 91.(24) It appears that Pompeius Strabo was no friend of this group.
		Pompeius Strabo may also have shared common political ground with Antistius, the tribune who aided Sulpicius in his opposition to the controversial candidacy.
		240-241, Pompeius Strabo's recent outstanding military achievements may have encouraged the general's belief that he would be reappointed for a second consular term, a beneficiary of the Marian tradition of continuing tenure of office during a military crisis.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V1N3/beness.html (2230 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.12.15
		Especially due to the novelty of his family, his father's unpopularity and untimely death in 87, Pompeius lacked the connections and friendships with the senate in Rome.
		Pompeius' rise to his first consulship is the topic of chapter three (pp.
		Yet Pompeius and Crassus were elected as consuls for the 70.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-12-15.html (1324 words)

	POMPEIUS STRABO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, часто называемое Strabo или Pompey Strabo на английском языке, было римским от сельской провинции Picenum.
		Strabo дало команду на проведение римских усилий против итальянских союзников в северной части Италии.
		Strabo besieged rome, но умерло прежде чем сражение было о.
	www.faktoru.com /wiki/ru/po/Pompeius%20Strabo.htm (157 words)

	Pompey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		, Gnaeus or Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus) (September 29, 106 BC–September 29, 48 BC), was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman republic.
		The son of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (strabo meaning cross-eyed), Gnaeus Pompeius was born on September 29, 106 BC, in the consulship of Atilius Serranus and Servilius Caepio, and was, consequently, a few months younger than Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was born on January 3 in this year, and six years older than Gaius Julius Caesar.
		His father Pompeius Strabo was an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum and his family was not a part of the ancient families who had dominated Roman politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pompey (5123 words)

	Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The most significant figure by this name, however, was Strabo (born 63 BC or 64 BC, died ca.
		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.
		Strabo's Historia is lost: Strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed.
	www.wikimoz.org /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/st/strabo.html (444 words)

	Internet Family Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (died 87 BC), whose cognomen means "Squinty", is of ten referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Stra bo the geographer.
		Pompeius Strabo was a Roman from the rural Italian d istrict of Picenum, that lay between the Apennines and the Adriatic.
		Strabo left camp on "personal busi ness" while his soldiers killed the replacement Later,when Strabo di ed of plague, a mob dragged his body through the streets until a tribune i nterceded.
	www.rydie.com /genealogy/names/PS06/PS06_145.htm (256 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Strabo
		According to Strabo, it was the earliest Greek colony in Italy or Sicily, and it seems to have been founded c.750 BC by Chalcis.
		Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 BC), a commander of equivocal reputation.
		BC A native of the Greek colony of Massilia (modern Marseilles), he explored the Atlantic coasts of Spain and France, circumnavigated Britain, and sailed to Thule (perhaps the Shetlands or Iceland) and to the Baltic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Strabo (596 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus known in English English as Pompey September...
		Pompey was the son and heir of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum Picenum.
		Strabo was an important general and the first senator senator of the family, being elected consul consul in 89 BC 89 BC.
		Strabo died in the conflicts between Gaius Marius Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla, leaving young Pompey in control of his affairs and fortune.
	www.biodatabase.de /Pompey (2469 words)

	Youth and Early Career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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. Pompey's father always switched sides in the wars between Marius and his opponents, to gain a personal advantage.
		Shortly after his father's death, Cnaeus Pompeius was brought to trial accused of keeping some of the spoils of the city of Asculum, captured by his father in 89 B.C. He was acquitted but during the trial the presiding praetor, attempting to advance himself, secretly betrothed his daughter Antistia to Pompey.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/youth_and_early_career.htm (1158 words)

	Theater of Pompey - Theatrum Pompei Project
		Pompeius Strabo, possibly but not likely a member of his consilium.
		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].
		Pompeius, however, is the one who must be held accountable.
	www.theaterofpompey.com /rome/candp.shtml (1529 words)

	Pompeius Strabo, Gnaeus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pompeius Strabo, Gnaeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the civil war between Marius and Sulla, he did not take sides and was able to remain independent until he died.
		Pompeius Strabo is an important figure in Roman history because he established the power base, especially in Picenum, that helped his son to enter public life at the top, bypassing the normal step-by-step career.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pompeius+Strabo%2c+Gnaeus?p (178 words)

	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.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/146210 (1443 words)

	POMPEIUS AND CRASSUS
		Pompeius' staged display at the transvectio equitum in 70 and Crassus' political finesse at their reconciliation in 70, while Pompeius stood silent as a stone, first suggest this.
		The explanation for these differences in Pompeius' motives from the one Life to the other is twofold: Plutarch tends to portray his heroes more favorably in their own biographies, while characterizing their actions differently elsewhere; and he uses the defects of others as a foil for the character of his subject.
		Pompeius must again face this fear in 62: "reports of all kinds about Pompeius reached Rome beforehand, and there was much uproar on the suspicion that he would advance straightaway against the city, and a permanent monarchy would come to be" (Pomp.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~phoenix/contents_indices/Hillman.html (6280 words)

	Pompeius Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo often referred to as or Pompey Strabo in English was a Roman from the rural province of Picenum.
		After proving his military talent Strabo the cursus honorum and became consul in the year 89 BC in the midst of the Social War.
		Strabo's son the famous Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) took the legions to Picenum once again.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pompeius_Strabo (271 words)

	Richardson, Romans in Spain
		Pompeius to hold a command alongside Metellus with imperium pro consule.(55) Pompeius had at that time not only not held either a consulship or a praetorship, but was too young to have held either.
		Pompeius and his younger brother, Sextus, in the Baetis valley, the former besieging the town of Ulia, the latter at Corduba.
		Pompeius Strabo gave citizenship in 89.(143) Their service in the Roman army would not only have made them think of themselves in Roman terms, but also opened the possibility of access to citizenship.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~jgaughan/HY492/RomansinSpain.htm (8888 words)

	info: Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Publius Sulpicius RufusRoman orator and statesman, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs.
		Untitled DocumentGnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born in 106 B.C. At age 17, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus fought on the side of Sulla along with his father Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo.
		Pompey the Great --Â Britannica Student EncyclopediaPompey 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.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo.html (576 words)

	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.
	www.dromo.info /pompeybio.htm (858 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo - infos.aus-germanien.de
		Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (das heißt der Schielende) war ein römischer Politiker aus der ländlichen Region Picenum.
		Nach seinem Consulat und dem Krieg zog sich Strabo mit den allermeisten seiner Veteranen nach Picenum zurück.
		Strabos Sohn, der berühmte Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, führte seine Legionen wieder zurück nach Picenum.
	infos.aus-germanien.de /Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo (162 words)

	Roman Timeline of the First Century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Pompeius Magnus and executed in the town of Lilybaeum.
		Pompeius Magnus, who is given unlimited imperium on water to fight against the growing pirate menace.
		Pompeius Magnus Pius is defeated by the legate of Octavian, M. Vipsanius Agrippa.
	www.unrv.com /empire/roman-timeline-1st-century.php (2481 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		106-48 B.C. Cnaeus Pompeius was born on 29 September 106 B.C. in the rural, northern region of Picenum.
		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.
		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.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/gnaeus_pompeius.htm (4365 words)

	Pompeius Strabo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Pompeius Strabo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Pompeius Strabo contains research on
		Pompeius Strabo, External link, 1911 Britannica, 87 BC deaths, Roman generals and Roman Republican consuls.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gnaeus_Pompeius_Strabo (315 words)

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