The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.

Bibulus, whom Pompey had appointed to command his 600-ship fleet, set up a massive blockade to prevent Caesar from crossing to Greece and to prevent any aid to Italy.

Pompey by now had a massive international army ; however, his troops were mostly untested raw recruits, while Caesar's troops were hardened veterans.

Domitian's great-grandfather, Titus Flavius Petro, had served as a centurion under Pompey during Caesar's civil war.

It had been a pagan city since Pompey had given control of the city to the gentiles during his command of the eastern provinces in the 60s BC.

These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC.

Pompey and Crassus had been at odds for a decade, so Caesar tried to reconcile them.

In 50 BC, the Senate, led by Pompey, ordered Caesar to disband his army and return to Rome because his term as governor had finished.

Despite greatly outnumbering Caesar, who only had his Thirteenth Legion with him, Pompey did not intend to fight.

The plotters, however, had anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.

In 46 BC he seems to have taken offense because Caesar insisted on payment for the property of Pompey which Antony professedly had purchased, but had in fact simply appropriated.

His father was killed by Pompey the Great in dubious circumstances after he had taken part in the rebellion of Lepidus ; his mother was the half-sister of Cato the Younger, and later Julius Caesar's mistress.

To represent his African conquest, and perhaps to outdo even Bacchus, Pompey had a team of elephants yoked to his triumphal chariot, but they proved too tight a fit for one of the gates en route to the Capitol.

Pompey had to dismount and wait while a horse team was yoked in their place.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

First, Pompey was not even a praetor, on which grounds a triumph had been denied in 206 BC to the great Scipio Africanus, who had defeated Rome ´ s outstanding enemy, Hannibal, and brought Rome an entire province in Hispania.

Second, Pompey had defeated fellow Romans ; however, a precedent had been set when the consul Lucius Julius Caesar ( a relative of Gaius Julius Caesar ) had been granted a triumph for a small victory over Italian peoples in the Social War.

Caesar began to despair and used every channel he could think of to pursue peace with Pompey.

So dire was his situation that he made several attempts to discuss peace with Pompey but was refused at every channel.

In these respects his early career demonstrates a generous and just nature, but also his political traditionalism in contrast to contemporaries such as Cicero and Pompey, the former of whom was always eager to avoid administrative responsibilities of any sort in the provinces, while Pompey rejected every aspect of a normal career, seeking great military commands at every opportunity which suited him, while refusing to undertake normal duties in peaceful provinces.

Meanwhile, Pompey was fighting in Hispania against Quintus Sertorius, the last effective Marian general, without notable advantage.

On the fall of Pompey, Pharnaces II, son of Mithridates, took advantage of Julius Caesar being occupied in Egypt, and reduced Colchis, Armenia, and some part of Cappadocia, defeating Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, whom Caesar subsequently sent against him.

Pompey is said to have found them in the army of Mithridates.

On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ").

river he was faced by Pompey with an army at least three times as great.

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.

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.

Finally the standoff was broken by a traitor in Caesar's army, who informed Pompey of a weakness in Caesar's wall.

Pompey immediately exploited this information and forced Caesar's army into a full rout, but ordered his army not to pursue, fearing Caesar's reputation for setting elaborate traps.

Although Pompey was strongly against it-he wanted to surround and starve Caesar's army instead-he eventually gave in and accepted battle from Caesar on a field near Pharsalus.

Pompey deployed his army in the traditional formation of three lines with a depth of ten men.

* Battle of the Lycus, fought in 66 BC between the Roman Republic army of Pompey and the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus

This attack caused such panic in Rome that Pompey the Great arranged for the tribune Aulus Gabinius to rise in the Roman Forum and propose a law, the Lex Gabinia, to allow Pompey to raise an army and destroy the pirates.

At the time of his death, he was on the verge of successfully establishing an independent Roman republic in Hispania, which crumbled with the renewed onslaught of Pompey and Metellus, who crushed Perpenna's army and eliminated the remaining opposition.

He attempted to convince Pompey to face Caesar in Italy and not retreat to Hispania ( Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal ) to regroup, in his claims that Caesar ’ s army was thin and weakened after his campaign in Gaul.

But he had risked interfering with Lucullus ' army in the east directly in the interests of Pompey, who had not lifted a finger to help him, despite being locked in serious political dispute with the Luculli brothers.

It was fought between Julius Caesar and the army led by Gnaeus Pompey with the backing of the majority of the Roman Senate.

After first reducing Caesar's army at the battle of Dyrrhachium ( where Cato commanded the port ), the army led by Pompey was ultimately defeated by Caesar in the battle of Pharsalus ( 48 BC ).

However in his absence his authority over his army at Nisibis was seriously undermined by the youngest and wildest of the Claudian brothers, Publius Clodius Pulcher, apparently acting in the interests of Pompey, who was eager to succeed Lucullus in the Mithridatic War command.

Caesar pursued Pompey, hoping to capture him before his legions could escape.

Pompey managed to escape before Caesar could capture him.

Despite this, Afranius, along with Petreius, broke his word to Caesar, embarked with as many loyal troops as he could gather and sailed for Epirus and Pompey.

An alternative account says that the Roman general Pompey believed he could make himself immune to poison by ingesting small amounts of various poisons, and he took this treatment with a grain of salt to help him swallow the poison.

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

On the charge of maiestas ( high treason ) incurred by having left his province for Egypt without the consent of the senate and in defiance of the Sibylline books, he was acquitted ; it is said that the judges were bribed, and even Cicero, an enemy of Gabinius, was persuaded by Pompey to say as little as he could.

Nothing but Cicero's wish to do a favour to Pompey could have induced him to take on the task ; it is hinted that the half-heartedness of the defence contributed to Gabinius's condemnation.

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.

As a result of a law passed by Pompey during his sole consulship, proscribing that governorships could not be held by persons who had served as praetor or consul within five years of leaving office, Bibulus was appointed governor of Syria in 51 BC.

Joining up with Pompey, he was placed in charge of Pompey ’ s fleet in the Adriatic, to ensure that Caesar and his troops could not cross from Brundisium in Italy to Epirus.

The Pompey Supporters Trust says its bid to buy Portsmouth is ' ongoing ' and has welcomed news land surrounding Fratton Park could be up for sale.

Before work could begin, however, the plans were superseded by a new proposal to redevelop more or less on the existing site, but realigning the pitch 90 degrees to accommodate a larger capacity stadium, funded in part by a " Pompey Village " residential, hotel and retail project on the adjacent site.

Despite his loan spell at West Ham having ended, the club continued talks with Portsmouth regarding a deal to bring Ben Haim back ; the two clubs could not come to an agreement, while financial issues prevented him from linking up with Pompey.

Though Pompey was largely untouchable, senatorial resentment could be visited upon his clients and former subordinates.

On 16 October 2010, Brown scored a stunning winner in the 3-2 win over Watford at Fratton Park and remained almost ever-present for Portsmouth throughout the following months, until both he and Pompey teammate Richard Hughes reached the stage where they would both be entitled to new contracts with increased wages which the club could not afford, with Brown on a reported £ 25, 000 a week, if they played another game.