But seeing that Pompey's army was not advancing, Caesar's men, without orders, stopped to rest and regroup before continuing the charge.

After this, Caesar ordered his six cohorts from his left flank to attack the flank of Pompey's army, the battle was more or less decided.

Pompey's army by and large pardoned.

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.

After a brief retirement to Puteoli he soon rejoined Pompey's main army in Greece.

In 48 BC, Pompey's main army confronted that of Julius Caesar and his lieutenant Marc Antony at the battle of Pharsalus.

In Italy, after defusing a mutiny, Caesar marches to Brundisium and sails across the Adriatic to meet Pompey's army.

In 64 BC, he sided with the Romans helping Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius when the latter occupied northern Mesopotamia, but it is alleged that he helped to betray Marcus Crassus by leading him out onto an open plain, resulting in 53 BC in the Battle of Carrhae, which destroyed an entire Roman army.

Caesar knew this would be his last stand as they had run out of supplies and with no lines of retreat they would be at Pompey's mercy and likely slaughtered if they lost the battle.

Nevertheless, Pompey's sons escaped to Spain ; Caesar gave chase and defeated the last remnants of opposition in the Battle of Munda in March 45 BC.

After Pompey's defeat in the Battle of Pharsalus, Caesar gave orders to his officers not to harm Brutus if they saw him in battle, probably out of respect for Servilia.

The conservative republicans had initially been led by Pompey, until the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC and Pompey's death soon afterwards.

It was the site of the Battle of Ruspina in 46 BC in which Pompey's ally Titus Labienus was able by mere force of numbers to inflict a slight check upon Julius Caesar.

Antony commanded Italy whilst Caesar destroyed Pompey's legions in Spain, and led the reinforcements to Greece, before commanding the right wing of Caesar's armies at Pharsalus.

Bibulus died in 48 BC following Pompey's defeat, leaving Porcia a widow.

After leaving the British Army, he spent the majority of his career at Portsmouth where he scored 99 times in 173 league appearances, including Pompey's all-time scoring record of 42 league goals in the 1992 – 3 season ( 48 in all competitions ) as the club missed out on automatic promotion to the Premier League on goals scored.

After spending the first months of 47 BC in Egypt, Caesar went to the Middle East, where he annihilated the king of Pontus ; his victory was so swift and complete that he mocked Pompey's previous victories over such poor enemies.

Pompey's soldiers reportedly suffered lethal casualties following the consumption of honey made from Rhododendron deliberately left behind by Pontic forces in 67 BC during the Third Mithridatic War.

Sulla, as dictator, needed to secure Pompey's loyalty and to do that, he arranged his marriage to Mucia around 79 BC.

The First Triumvirate, a political ( although informal ) alliance with Pompey and Crassus, came to an end in 54 BC, with the deaths of Julia ( Caesar's daughter and Pompey's wife ) in childbirth and Crassus in the battle of Carrhae.

In the outskirts of Mtskheta are the ruins of Armaztsikhe fortress ( 3rd century BC ), the Armaztsikhe acropolis ( dating to the late 1st millennium BC ), remains of a " Pompey's bridge " ( according to legends built by Roman legionnaires of Pompey the Great in 1st century BC ), the fragmentary remains of a royal palace ( 1st – 3rd century AD ), a nearby tomb of the 1st century AD, a small church of the 4th century, the Samtavro Monastery ( 11th century ), and the fortress of Bebris Tsikhe ( 14th century ).

Roman influence was first established with Pompey's campaign of 66 / 65 BC, and again in 59 AD in the campaign of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo which resulted in the deposition of Tiridates I.

The theatre was inspired after Pompey's visit in 62 BC to a Greek theatre in Mytilene.

Aristobulus was on his way to Judaea with his son Alexander, in 49 BC when " he was taken off by poison given him by those of Pompey's party ".

A great number of Jews had reached Sicily after Pompey's 63 BC sacking of Jerusalem, and additionally by Roman Proconsul Crassus, who is traditionally said to have sold more than 30, 000 Jewish slaves on the island.

It was destroyed by Pompey's general Gabinius in 57 BC, but later rebuilt by Herod the Great in 30 BC to be used as a military base to safeguard his territories east of the Jordan.

Pompey's two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus, and the Pompeian faction, led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato, survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great.

Caesar tried to re-secure Pompey's support by offering him his great-niece in marriage, but Pompey declined.

In 1550, the triumphant entry into Rouen of Henri II of France was compared to Pompey's third triumph of 61 BCE at Rome: " No less pleasing and delectable than the third triumph of Pompey ... magnificent in riches and abounding in the spoils of foreign nations ".

Crassus's rivalry with Pompey and his envy of Pompey's triumph would influence his subsequent career.

Although he was Caesar's political enemy, Pompey was a Roman consul and the widower of Caesar's only legitimate daughter, Julia ( who died in childbirth with Pompey's son ).

Contemptuously calling Pompey Sulla's pupil, Sertorius proved himself more than a match for his adversaries: he razed Lauron, a city allied to Rome, after a battle in which Pompey's forces were ambushed and defeated ; he nearly captured Pompey at the battle of Sucro when Pompey decided to fight Sertorius without waiting for Metellus Pius ; but was indecisively beaten at Saguntum.

T. Mommsen states that Sallust acted in Pompey's interests ( according to Mommsen, Pompey was prepearing to install his own dictatorship ).

However, Pompey's pawns soon had occasion to turn to the other side: " At the beginning of the civil war between and Pompey, Hyrcanus, at the instance of Antipater, prepared to support the man to whom he owed his position ; but when Pompey was murdered, Antipater led the Jewish forces to the help of Caesar, who was hard pressed at Alexandria.

Due to Pompey's enormous popularity, the Senate was not willing to oblige Cato at first, but Cato intervened and convinced the Senate to force Pompey to choose.

According to Cicero's personal correspondence, the motive was adultery ( it is said that she was one of Julius Caesar's many affairs, although Pompey's friendship and alliance with Caesar at the time would tend to suggest that Pompey himself either did not regard this rumour as true or did not consider it important ).

After this in March 59, Bibulus stopped attending the meetings of the Senate, leaving Caesar with complete control over the consulship, although he occasionally issued complaints against Caesar and Pompey, which led to attacks on his house from Caesar and Pompey's supporters.

A short time later he arrives in Egypt ; when Pharaoh's messenger presents him with the head of Pompey, Caesar feigns grief to hide his joy at Pompey's death.

When Caesar arrived he was presented with the head of Pompey, but he responded with grief and disgust and ordered that Pompey's body be located and given a proper Roman funeral.

During Mithridates ' defeat by Pompey, Hypsicratea broke free of Pompey's blockade and while the rest dispersed she was one of only three who remained by the King's side.

After Pompey's return from the East in 61, Hortensius withdrew from public life and devoted himself to his profession.

Due to appearances in Tottenham's third and fourth round ties Defoe found himself cup-tied for all the subsequent matches of Pompey's successful FA Cup 2007-08 campaign.