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Pompey and had
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.
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.
Pompey had every tactical advantage an army could hope for ; he held the higher ground, had superiority of numbers, and was better supplied from his many allies in Greece.
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.

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

Pompey and majority
In 66 BC with the majority of Lucullus ' troops now openly refusing to obey his commands, but agreeing to defend Roman positions from attack, the senate sent Pompey to take over Lucullus ' command at which point Lucullus returned to Rome.

Pompey and senators
Cicero argued that the senatus consultum ultimum indemnified him from punishment, and he attempted to gain the support of the senators and consuls, especially of Pompey.
After him came Julius Caesar, who after conquering the Gaul ( present day France ) won a civil war against Pompey but was assassinated by senators fearing he would start a monarchy, in 44 BC.

Pompey and whom
* In the Masters of Rome novels of Colleen McCullough, Brutus is portrayed as a timid intellectual who hates Caesar for personal reasons, foremost of them the fact that his marriage arrangement with Caesar's daughter, Julia, whom Brutus deeply loved, was dissolved in Caesar's political gamble to give his daughter's hand to Pompey to cement with him an alliance.
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.
He associated with some of the leading figures of late republican Rome, including Cicero and Pompey, both of whom visited him in Rhodes.
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.
Calahorra supported Quintus Sertorius in his war against Pompey, whom the city resisted successfully since 76 BC.
At first a strong supporter of Pompey, he quarrelled with him, and went over to Caesar, whom he had previously attacked.
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.
The public directed most of their anger toward Pompey, whom they believed responsible for the murder.
Caesar pardoned him for having sided with Pompey, ordered him to resume his royal attire, and hastened against Pharnaces, whom he defeated at Zela.
The younger Paullus married Cornelia Scipio a descendant of triumvir Pompey by whom he became the father of the Lucius Aemilius Paullus ( consul in 1 AD ) who became the husband to Augustus's granddaughter, Julia the Younger, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the consul in 6 AD.
No sons survived to adulthood, but he had at least two daughters Claudiae neither of whom are mentioned directly by name, but only in the context of their relationships by marriage: the younger to Pompey the younger ( born ca. 79 BC ), while the elder was the first wife of Marcus Junius Brutus ( born 85 ).
By his first wife, who was noted for her beauty, but whom he divorced after her adultery with another consul, he had a daughter Mucia Tertia, who was wife of Pompey the Great and mother of his three surviving children.

Pompey and many
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.
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 ).
Asconius, as he does with many other parts of the Pro Milone, disputes this fact, claiming that Pompey was in fact afraid of Milo, " or else pretended to be afraid ", staying in the upper parts of his property in the suburbs and employing a constant body of troops to keep guard.

Pompey and were
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.
* lines 15. 93-131 – The Vascones, however, were blameless, because they were compelled to cannibalism by the siege of Pompey the Great.
While client nations like Armenia and Judea were allowed to continue with some degree of autonomy under local kings, Pompey saw the Seleucids as too troublesome to continue ; and doing away with both rival Seleucid princes, he made Syria into a Roman province.
Clodius and Milo were both tribunes who used violence in the courts and government in order to achieve the needs and requests of Pompey and Caesar.
The three triumphs awarded Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ") were thoroughly documented, not least because they were controversial to their contemporaries and to later writers.
For his second triumph, his donatives were said to break all records, though the amounts in Plutarch's account are implausibly high: Pompey ’ s lowest ranking soldiers each received 6000 sesterces ( about six times their annual pay ) and his officers around 5 million sesterces each.
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.
While Caesar and Crassus were lifelong allies, Crassus and Pompey disliked each other and Pompey grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic Wars.
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.
When these two legions were delivered to Italy, instead of being sent to fight against the Parthians, they remained in Italy and were handed over to Pompey.
Caesar contrived to reconcile the two men, and then combined their clout with his own to have himself elected consul in 59 BC ; he and Crassus were already friends ( modern consensus as to the beginning of the friendship to be as early as 65 where a young Caesar supported Crassus's proposal to make Egypt tributary to Rome ), and he solidified his alliance with Pompey by giving him his own daughter, Julia, in marriage.
The alliance had allowed the Triumvirs to dominate Roman politics completely, but it would not last indefinitely due to the ambitions, egos, and jealousies of the three ; Caesar and Crassus were implicitly hand-in-glove, but Pompey disliked Crassus and grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic War, whereby he annexed the whole of the Three Gauls to Rome.
The revenues of the provinces which were now being organized by Pompey, and the booty and money taken or received by generals during war were also to be applied to this purpose.
Massalia backed Pompey ; when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate as a reward.
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.
Meanwhile, Pompey had fled after being bested by Sertorius, and the scattered forces of Afranius were attacked by the victorious Sertorians.
However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.

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