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Pompey's plan was to allow Caesar's infantry to advance, have his cavalry attack and push back the numerically inferior Julian horses, and then attack Caesar's infantry from behind.
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Pompey's right was protected by the River Enipeus, therefore he amassed all his cavalry on Caesar's right.
Caesar also deployed in three lines but could only set them to six men deep if he was to match the length of Pompey's line.
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.
After Pompey's defeat former allies began to align themselves with Caesar as some came to believe the gods favored him, while for others it was simple self-preservation.
Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.
While Caesar was in Britain his daughter Julia, Pompey's wife, had died in childbirth.
Perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in Pompey's murder, Caesar sided with Cleopatra ; he is reported to have wept at the sight of Pompey's head, which was offered to him by the pharaoh as a gift.
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.
In 55 BCE, Pompey's " gift to the Roman People " of a gigantic, architecturally daring theatre was dedicated to Venus Victrix, and thereby connected the once equestrian vir triumphalis to Aeneas, son of Venus and ancestor of Rome itself.
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 ".
Although the extent of the damage was not as disastrous as during the Great Fire of 64 — crucially sparing the many districts of insulae — Cassius Dio records a long list of important public buildings that were destroyed, including Agrippa's Pantheon, the Temple of Jupiter, the Diribitorium, parts of Pompey's Theatre and the Saepta Julia among others.
When Caesar arrived in Egypt two days later, Ptolemy presented him with Pompey's severed head ; Caesar was enraged.
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 ).
Afranius was present during Pompey's campaigns against Marian supporter Quintus Sertorius.
Sertorius attacked Pompey's left wing, which was under Afranius ' command.
Afranius held until Sertorius ' attention was drawn away by Pompey's attack into Sertorius ' own left.
It was only the timely arrival of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius which turned the tide in Pompey's favour.
Afranius was given command against the Arabians of Amanus, and his victory against them cleared the way for Pompey's advance into Syria.
Curio marched to face Pompey's ally King Juba of Numidia, but was defeated and killed, along with all his men, on the Bagradas River.
The town of Huntley was incorporated into the project along with the new railroad towns of Ballantine, Worden, and Pompey's Pillar, all founded in 1907.
It was an apt reference ( Pompey's war had taken him to Armenia ), and may have had some impact on the decision to send Lucius to the eastern front.
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Pompey's adviser Caius Triarius believed that Caesar's infantry would be fatigued and fall into disorder if they were forced to cover twice the expected distance.
When the lines joined, Labienus ordered the cavalry to attack ; as expected they successfully pushed back Caesar's cavalry until his hidden fourth line joined in, using their pila to thrust at Pompey's cavalry and turn them to flight.
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.
The alliance combined Caesar's enormous popularity and legal reputation with Crassus's fantastic wealth and influence within the plutocratic Equestrian order ( ordo equester ) and Pompey's equally spectacular wealth and military reputation.
In addition Pompey's fleet, commanded by Caesar's former junior consul Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, lay between Caesar and Greece.
Although initially successful Pompey's forces were simply too numerous and they began to flank Caesar's right wing which buckled as it was threatened from the rear.
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 ).
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.
The highest point of the structure was the Temple to Venus Victrix, Pompey's personal deity ( compared to Julius Caesar's worship of Venus Genetrix as his personal deity ).
Book 6: Pompey's troops force Caesar's armies – featuring the heroic centurion Scaeva – to fall back to Thessaly.
The soldier predicts Pompey's defeat and Caesar's eventual assassination.
** Pompey's sons Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus Pompeius, together with Titus Labienus, Caesar's former propraetorian legate ( legatus propraetore ) and second in command in the Gallic War, escaped to Hispania, where they continued to resist Caesar's dominance of the Roman world.
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Under Pompey's new procedural rules, the trial should have lasted five days, with the summing up for the defence and the verdict on the fifth.
Pompey's Theatre, where Julius Caesar was murdered, was also outside the pomerium and included a chamber where the Senate could meet allowing the attendance of any senators who were forbidden to cross the pomerium and thus would not have been able to meet in the Curia Hostilia.
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.
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Caesar swiftly reinforced the breach with twelve cohorts under Antony and then counter attacked, re-securing part of the wall and pushing Pompey's forces back.
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Caesar ordered a wall to be built around Pompey's position in order to cut off water and pasture land for his horses.
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They then became rivals of the Judaean dynasty, and a chief element in the disorders which invited Pompey's intervention in Judea.
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Claudius rebuilt Pompey's Theater after it had been destroyed by fire, organizing special fights at the re-dedication which he observed from a special platform in the orchestra box.
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.
He had a small role in the movie The View from Pompey's Head.
* 1955 The View from Pompey's Head
Despite the unprecedented size of Pompey's corps of legates — he received the right to appoint 24 of these senior adjutants — for his scourge of the pirates from the Mediterranean, Afranius did not number amongst them, as his patron chose to cultivate his links with the Roman aristocracy by appointing only men of distinguished family.
Brunswick has been featured in scenes from the films The View from Pompey's Head ( 1955 ), Conrack ( 1974 ), The Longest Yard ( 1974 ), and the documentary Criminalizing Dissent ( 2006 ).
* Hamilton Basso – The View from Pompey's Head
It was only taken four years later by Pompey's legate Lucius Afranius, after a lot of inhabitants had died from starvation and there had occurred cannibalism.
After Pompey's return from the East in 61, Hortensius withdrew from public life and devoted himself to his profession.
This marriage boosted Pompey's political career because Aemilia was an aristocratic patrician, while he was from a recent senatorial family.
When Caesar became consul, Cato opposed the agrarian laws that established farmlands for Pompey's veterans on public lands in Campania, from which the republic derived a quarter of its income.
Other buildings were made: the Theatre of Marcellus, the temple for Isis ( from around the time of Caligula ), the baths and bridge by Nero and Pompey's Theatre where Julius Caesar was murdered by Marcus Brutus.
Entering into office, Bibulus began his term as consul by vetoing Caesar ’ s proposed bill to purchase land in order to discharge and settle Pompey's soldiers who had returned from the east some years previously.
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.
Scenes from the films X-Men: First Class, Glory, The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Jekyll Island, and The View From Pompey's Head were filmed on Jekyll Island.
His best-known work is the novel The View from Pompey's Head, a story of a New York attorney who returns to his Southern home to investigate a mystery surrounding a famous writer.
His 1959 novel The Light Infantry Ball, a prequel to The View from Pompey's Head, was a finalist for the 1960 National Book Award.
* The View from Pompey's Head ( 1954 )
* The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso ( 1999 ) by Inez Hollander Lake
* The View from Pompey's Head ( 1955 )
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