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/ˈpɑmpi/
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NOUN
- a port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base
- Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)
How To Use Pompey In A Sentence
- He defeated Pompey's troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome.
- Hellespont in a kind of ferryboat, he met Pompey's fleet sailing with Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
- Fitz-pompeys cantered off with the Shropshires; omen of felicity to the enamoured St. Maurice and the enamouring Sophy. The Young Duke
- Reacting to the report of her husband Herod's death, Mariam acknowledges the intricacy of her emotional response and chastises herself for her earlier censure of Julius Caesar, who famously wept at the news of Pompey's demise.
- For when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him again, and in effect bade him be quiet.
- Infirimities of nature we are all subject to, and therefore I have sent master Pompey to wait upon miss Veny, begging the favour of you to return him as soon as his gallantries are over.
- He's extremely happy that coach (Tony) Dungy and Bill Polian expressed that they wanted to have him back and we wanted to get it done," said Kevin Pompey, Brock's agent. USATODAY.com - Brock signs five-year deal to stay with Colts
- On a coin of Pompey the Great the bearded head of Numa appears in profile, wearing a diadem inscribed NVMA.
- But in the midst of the visitors 'dominance Niko Kranjcar rattled the Albion woodwork from a short corner before Jermaine Pennant, the only real first-half threat to the Baggies, teed up Younes Kaboul to give Pompey an unlikely half-time lead. Express & Star
- Though Pompey was still an eques, Sulla grudgingly allowed him to triumph; and in 80, after the death of his wife Aemilia, Sulla's stepdaughter, he married Mucia Tertia, a close connection of the Metelli.