; Silius Italicus, Punica 10, 34). The assumption that Labienus was a Pompeian partisan from the beginning is attractive, cf. JR

and domestic pressure, against P. Clodius; 2 and he had prevented the Pompeian consul Pupius Piso from getting the province of S

ed aristocrat with no marked political activities, and A. Gabinius, a Pompeian partisan superior in ability to Afranius. Pompeiu

t lacking in pronounced political opinions, and two novi homines, the Pompeian general Afranius and the orator Cicero, pathetica

cero, Phil. 13, 28 f.: not veracious, however, for two of the alleged Pompeian consulars (‘quos civis, quos viros!’), namely M.

ghting were needed to stamp out the last and bitter resistance of the Pompeian cause in Africa and in Spain. ‘They would have

use of concord. So much for the principes: before long, most of the Pompeian consulars were dead, and few, indeed, of the Caes

s calamitosi’. The censorship was a valuable weapon. In 70 B.C. two Pompeian censors had cleansed the Senate of undesirables.

ced consulars, not all dubious characters. Gabinius, at least, an old Pompeian partisan, author of salutary legislation in defen

. Pocock, A Commentary on Cicero in Vatinium (1926), 29 ff. Of former Pompeian tribunes, L. Flavius joined Caesar (Ad Att. 10, 1

ety of functions. Such equestrian staff officers were Mamurra, an old Pompeian from Formiae, notorious for wealth and vice,2 and

pers XIV (1938), 23 f. C. Vibienus (Pro Milone 37) and the one-legged Pompeian senator Sex. Teidius (Asconius 28 p. 32 Clark, cf

t, this time against Antonius, by a hostile alliance of Caesarian and Pompeian elements. Antonius had failed as a non-party stat

at Caesar would be entangled and defeated in Spain by the experienced Pompeian generals. 3 Ad M. Brutum 1, 17, 4: ‘nimium time

’s Civil War he had spontaneously offered his good offices to bring a Pompeian general to his senses. 8 The soldiers were often

ent and irreparable than in the ranks of the senior statesmen. Of the Pompeian consulars, an eminent but over- lauded group,2 on

to the suppression of Antonius, to the revival of the Republican and Pompeian cause. In the provinces of the West stood Planc

us and Marcius Crispus, encamped outside the city of Apamea which the Pompeian adventurer Caecilius Bassus was holding with a le

mmunity of interest, hardened by the renascence of the Republican and Pompeian cause, was so strong that the loyal dispatches wh

ll support the constitutional cause now that it had become flagrantly Pompeian and Republican. 3 The consulate lay vacant but

for a time the ranks of the Caesarian party. With the revival of the Pompeian faction in the city of Rome and the gathering pow

staining from Roman politics. That was no defence. Varro was an old Pompeian , politically innocuous by now: but he was also th

further strengthened by the arrival of miscellaneous Republican or Pompeian nobles, old and young. 1 The Caesarian party, t

ex. Quinctilius Varus (Velleius2, 71, 3); also the pertinacious young Pompeian , Cn. Calpurnius Piso (Tacitus, Ann. 2, 43). For t

erhaps add Cn. Cornelius Lentulus (CIL XI, 6058) and Q. Nasidius, the Pompeian admiral and son of a Pompeian admiral (BMC, R. Re

lus (CIL XI, 6058) and Q. Nasidius, the Pompeian admiral and son of a Pompeian admiral (BMC, R. Rep. II, 564 f.). 4 Horace, Ep

ew up, while the party of Antonius, by contrast, became more and more Pompeian . That was not the only advantage now resting wi

r, but not wholly paradox, drove the remnants of the Catonian and the Pompeian parties, among them enemies of Caesar and assassi

ed with Antonius to the end; 2 likewise minor characters, such as the Pompeian admiral Q. Nasidius, and the few surviving assass

literary history, cf. P-W III, 1743. 4 On Poplicola, the son of the Pompeian consul of 72 B.C., cf. Münzer, P-W VII, 103 ff.:

us 65), perhaps a son of the consul of 76 B.C.: note M. Octavius as a Pompeian admiral in 49 and 48 B.C. (Caesar, JSC 3, 5, 3, &

ether the motley party of Antonius with a variegated past, Caesarian, Pompeian and Republican, bound by personal loyalty or fami

onstitutional purists could recall the situation in 49 B.C., when the Pompeian consuls departed from Rome without securing a lex

e Sallustius. The tone of literature in the Augustan age is certainly Pompeian rather than Caesarian, just as its avowed ideals

mpeius. In his youth Caesar’s heir, the revolutionary adventurer, won Pompeian support by guile and coolly betrayed his allies,

of Caesar a blessing or a curse? 4 Augustus twitted him with being a Pompeian . 5 The Emperor and his historian understood each

ome knights through military service. T. Flavius Petro, from Reate, a Pompeian veteran, had a son of equestrian rank, T. Flavius

ot so much to Augustus, as to the Republican Tiberius, mindful of his Pompeian ties (below, p. 424 f.). PageBook=>415 The

rruntius (cos. 22 B.C.), also an associate of Sex. Pompeius, formed a Pompeian connexion. 3 Cn. Cinna, again, was a grandson of

6, cf. PIR2, A 1147). But L. Arruntius himself (cos. A.D. 6) may have Pompeian blood or connexions through the Cornelii Sullae,

. 22 B.C. (PIR2, A 1129); his son, cos. A.D. 6 (ib., 1130). For their Pompeian connexions, which help to explain their prominenc

tus and of Antonius. 1 Tiberius did not forget his own Republican and Pompeian antecedents. Like the departure, the return of

recorded his arduous and triumphant career. Livy, like Virgil, was a Pompeian : he idealized the early career of Pompeius, contr

ame a respectable figure, so did Octavianus. It was the fashion to be Pompeian rather than Caesarian, for that was the ‘better c

m reprisals as well as formidable in attack. Labienus came of a loyal Pompeian family reduced in circumstances: he lived in pove

2 L. Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus, cos. A.D. 32 (PIR2, A 1140). Pompeian blood is attested by ILS 976, cf. PIR2, A 1147, a

ood fortune seldom accompanied their descendants. The families of two Pompeian partisans, L. Scribonius Libo and L. Arruntius, a

moves Tacitus to the sublimest indignation. Tiberius, Republican and Pompeian in his loyalties, himself a representative of the

57, 280, 291 f., 376, 385, 424. Amiternum, 90. Ampius Balbus, T., Pompeian partisan, 53. Amyntas, King of Galatia, 232, 26

4. Arruntius, L. (cos. 22 B.C.), 227, 282, 297, 330, 339, 372, 434; Pompeian connexion of, 425, 434, 499. Arruntius, L. (cos

peian connexion of, 425, 434, 499. Arruntius, L. (cos. A.D. 6), his Pompeian connexion, 425; regarded as ‘capax imperii’, 433

f., 68, 85, 86, 163, 198, 237, 244, 423, 491. Caecilius Bassus, Q., Pompeian , 103, 171. Caecilius Metellus, proscribed, 198.

4, 35, 38, 39, 62; political and general, 63, 379 f. Cossinius, L., Pompeian partisan and authority on goats, 31. Court, the i

homo, 94. Flavius Gallus, Antonian general, 264. Flavius Petro, T., Pompeian veteran, 354. Flavius Sabinus, T., tax-gatherer,

15. Licinus, freedman and procurator of Gaul, 410, 476. Ligarius, Q., Pompeian and assassin, 95, 206. Ligustinus, Sp., as type

pbraided by Velleius, 429. Lollius Palicanus, M. (tr. pl. 71 B.C.), Pompeian partisan from Picenum, 31, 88, 374. Loyalty, need

Mutina, War of, 169 ff. PageBook=>556 Mylasa, 260. Mytilene, Pompeian and Caesarian partisans from, 76, 263; honours Po

erial freedman, 386. Narnia, 200; a local god at, 83. Nasidius, Q., Pompeian and Antonian admiral, 228, 269, 296, 350. Natio

f, 211 f., 466. Petraeus, Caesarian in Thessaly, 262. Petreius, M., Pompeian partisan, 31, 163; his military experience, 396.

in the clientela of the Pompeii, 28, 92; goes over to Caesar, 49, 90; Pompeian partisans from, 28, 31, 88, 90; Caesarians, 92; o

ur as consul, 371; legate of Syria, 398, 425; on the Rhine, 401, 435; Pompeian relationship, 228, 424; descendants, 500. Senti

Terentius Culleo, Q., legate of Lepidus, 178. Terentius Varro, M., Pompeian partisan and scholar, 31; his friends, 31; wealth

itude to the aristocracy, 344 f., 368; attitude to novi homines, 434; Pompeian affinities, 414, 424; his friends and partisans,