Pompey

How To Use Pompey In A Sentence

• Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
• -- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar. Archive 2009-11-01
• Cicero was out of Rome during the eighteen months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, being selected under regulations following Pompey's lex de provinciis.
• Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world. CONSPIRATA
• Communist Party and communist youth have won big political and organizational successes in the establishment of their policy, because the recent feat of the rescue of Comrades Pompeyo, Guillermo, and Teodoro has filled with enthusiasm and renewed energy all the communist militants of the country, and because, finally, the anarchist, adventurous policy of the antiparty group has demonstrated its inevitable failure and has enormously helped in the clarification of problems under discussion. LASO CLOSING SESSION
• Nor does he confine himself to the great figures such as the Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Pompey, and Caesar; he is equally fond of portraying the characters of deuteragonists like Clodius, Curio, Lepidus, and Plancus.
• While assassins approached the tent, Pompey began barking and scratching to warn his master, finally jumping on William's face to wake him.
• Last week's defeat against Pompey dragged the club back into the thick of a relegation battle.
• All anyone could talk about now was the coming confrontation between Crassus and Pompey; the plight of the Sicilian was a bore. Imperium
• He raised an army but was defeated in 77 by his optimate colleague, Q. Lutatius Catulus, and Pompey. F. War and Politics, to 70 B.C.E