Definition of Pompey the great

1. Noun. Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pompey The Great

Pomolobus
Pomolobus pseudoharengus
Pomoxis
Pomoxis annularis
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Pompe's disease
Pompe disease
Pompeian
Pompeian red
Pompeiana
Pompeians
Pompeii
Pompeiian
Pompeiians
Pompey
Pompey the Great
Pompocali
Pomptine
Ponca
Poncirus
Poncirus trifoliata
Pondicherry
Ponfick
Ponfick's shadow
Pong
Pongamia
Pongamia glabra
Ponka
Ponstel
Ponte 25 de Abril

Literary usage of Pompey the great

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"... OF pompey the great ACT IA room in POMPEY'S house near Rome. Walls hung wilh draperies of a dark bine. Doors curtained. Balcony, open, showing distant ..."

2. The History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882)
"... from his more brilliant victory over the last of the mighty potentates of Asia, Mithridates, the marvellous king of Pontus, Pompey the Great, ..."

3. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"j "Pompey the Great" is written with an attempt at realistic treatment. It has ••a tendency to colloquialism, just as Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" has. ..."

4. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"STATUE OP pompey the great. The large Statue of Pompey, formerly in the collection of the Cardinal Spada, is supposed to be the same as that, at the base of ..."

5. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"Great advocates away with the army. came for the time into contact with the consul's son, ver)1 near his own age, known in after years as Pompey the Great, ..."

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