Pompey

Also known as: young Pompey · Family: Roman · Role: Roman leader · First appears: Annals I (4)

Annals I (4)

• enemies with Augustus “did he not betray the young Pompey by an insidious peace, betray Lepidus by a deceitful show of friendship?”

Annals IV (5)

• with Titus Livius (Livius publicly praised Pompey; no controlled relation more specific than this is established.) “Titus Livius, an historian eminently famous for eloquence and veracity, signalised Pompey with such abundant encomiums, that he was thence by Augustus named Pompeianus;”

Histories I.50-52

• rivals with Julius Caesar “But now--are we to go and pray for Otho or for Vitellius? To pray for either would be impious. It would be wicked to offer vows for the success of either in a war of which we can only be sure that the winner will prove the worse.”

Histories III.66-69

• enemies with Julius Caesar “Julius Caesar did not let Pompey live unmolested, nor Augustus Antony.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.