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Pompey and built
The segment of modern U. S. Route 20 ( US 20 ), which connects Cazenovia and Skaneateles by way of Pompey and LaFayette, was not built until 1934.
Pompey built the first stone theatre in Rome in the Campus Martius in 55 BC: This was the first real monument in the area.
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 ).
This practice was due to a moratorium on permanent theatre structures that lasted until 55 BC when the Theatre of Pompey was built with the addition of a temple to avoid the law.
In Roman times there were three temples in what is now the area surrounding the basilica and former convent buildings: the Minervium, built by Gnaeus Pompey in honour of the goddess Minerva about 50 B. C., referred to as ; the Iseum dedicated to Isis, and the Serapeum dedicated to Serapis.
The Theatre of Pompey (, ) was a structure in Ancient Rome built during the later part of the Roman Republican era.
The building's bone-colored travertine was scavenged from the nearby Roman ruins of the Theatre of Pompey, for the Eternal City was a field of ruins, built for a city of over a million people that now housed some thirty thousand.
Roy Atwell, son of Joseph Addison Atwell, is a direct descendant of Joseph Atwell ( 1754 – 1834 ), a revolutionary war soldier who in 1792 purchased land in the military tract in New York State that was then the frontier and built a house (" Atwell's Corners ") in what today is known as Pompey Hollow south of Syracuse, New York, near Cazenovia.
Pompey built his curia.

Pompey and wall
Finally the standoff was broken by a traitor in Caesar's army, who informed Pompey of a weakness in Caesar's wall.
Pompey responded with wall and fortifications of his own to prevent any further advancement.
With these two men on his side, Pompey was able to discover the weakest point in Caesar's wall.
Josephus notes that with his newfound rights and honors, Antipater immediately began to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem that Pompey had destroyed when subduing Aristobulus.
Today most of the location of the curia at the Theatre of Pompey is covered by roadway ; however, a portion of its wall near the Sacred Area was excavated under Mussolini.

Pompey and between
A dispute between Caesar and the Senate of Rome culminated in Caesar marching his army on Rome and forcing Pompey, accompanied by much of the Roman Senate, to flee from Italy to Greece in 49 BC where he could better conscript an army to face his former ally.
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
His nephew Lucan wrote the Pharsalia ( about 60 ), an epic poem describing the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.
* Lucan writes a history of the conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
When civil war broke out in 49 BC between Pompey and Caesar, Brutus followed his old enemy and present leader of the Optimates, Pompey.
In the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, the citizens of Caralis were the first to declare in favor of the former, an example soon followed by the other cities of Sardinia ; and Caesar himself touched there with his fleet on his return from Africa.
Crassus ' death permanently unraveled the alliance between Caesar and Pompey.
Some time later, when the Roman armies led by Pompey and Varro Lucullus were recalled to Italy in support of Crassus, Spartacus decided to fight rather than find himself and his followers trapped between three armies, two of them returning from overseas action.
This caused much strife between Pompey and Crassus.
Caesar's mediation between Crassus and Pompey led to the creation of the coalition between Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar ( by now consul ), known as the First Triumvirate in 60 BC.
Within the senate there is division between the supporters of Caesar and supporters of Pompey.
In 49 BC, Massalia had the misfortune to choose the wrong side in the power struggle between Pompey and Julius Caesar.
* Creation of the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus ( or 59 BC )
During this time he circulated the first three books of his epic poem, Pharsalia ( labelled De Bello civili in the manuscripts ), which told the story of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
* Bellum Civile ( Civil War ), on the wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus
After the death of Jugurtha, western Numidia was added to the lands of Bocchus, king of Mauretania, while the remainder ( excluding Cyrene and its locality ) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
* Battle of the Lycus, fought in 66 BC between the Roman Republic army of Pompey and the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus
The home leg of the South Coast Derby between Southampton and Pompey came on Saturday 7th, where table topping Saints were clear favourites against Portsmouth who sat in 23rd place and seriously threatened by relegation.

Pompey and no
Caesar was now in a dire position, holding a beachhead at Epirus with only half his army, no ability to supply his troops by sea, and limited local support, as the Greek cities were mostly loyal to Pompey.
He purposed to write a fuller history of the later period, including the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and the wars of Tiberius ; but there is no evidence that he did so.
After the outbreak of the civil war, he was recalled by Gaius Julius Caesar in 49 BC, and entered his service, but took no active part against his old patron Pompey.
He had other problems as well, Pompey had left him with no ships to cross the Adriatic and Spain had begun to mobilize against Caesar.
Between these two fortifications a no mans land was created which saw constant skirmishes with little or no advancement similar to the trench warfare of World War I. Caesar held the out-lying farmland but it had been picked clean and Pompey, with the sea to his back, was able to be resupplied by ship.
Bibulus tried again to block Caesar ’ s five year appointment as governor of the provinces of Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul by declaring that no public business could be conducted whilst he observed the sky for omens, but was again rebuffed by Pompey and one of the consul-designates who supported Caesar ’ s appointment.
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During the Roman Republican civil wars the Parthians sided first with Pompey and then with Brutus and Cassius, but took no action until 40 BC, when Pacorus, assisted by the Roman deserter Quintus Labienus conquered a great part of Syria and Asia Minor, but was defeated and killed by Ventidius in 38 BC.
Since Augustus had no sons, Marcellus was one of his closest relatives-already at the age of three, when his uncle needed to make peace with Sextus Pompey, Marcellus was engaged to a daughter of Sextus ( though the engagement was forgotten when Sextus Pompeius was defeated ).

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