How To Use Pompey In A Sentence
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He defeated Pompey's troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome.
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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.
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Fitz-pompeys cantered off with the Shropshires; omen of felicity to the enamoured St. Maurice and the enamouring Sophy.
The Young Duke
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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On a coin of Pompey the Great the bearded head of Numa appears in profile, wearing a diadem inscribed NVMA.
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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
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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.
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CELER, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother-in-law of Pompey who married his sister, husband of Clodia, brother of Nepos; member of the College of Augurs; praetor; head of the most extensive and powerful family in Rome; a war hero with a powerful military reputation
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As consul, he used violence to force through legislation favouring Pompey and Crassus and giving himself the governorship of Gaul.
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Sport is very competitive and we travelled mostly to Pompey to play football, rounders, and tennis.
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A distracted Pompey dispatches Durio, his top aide, to take care of the gold, loading his vault onto an ox- drawn wagon.
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AROUND THIS TIME, exactly as Clodius had predicted, Pompey the Great returned to Italy, making land at Brundisium.
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Panic spreads among Pompey's young soldiers as they turn and flee.
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While Pompey was thus anxiously and toilsomely endeavoring to gain the sea-shore, Cæsar was completing his victory over the army which he had left behind him.
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The Gadetanian uncle and nephew were put in the clientship of one of Pompey's more recent legates, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, a cousin of the consul.
Fortune's Favorites
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I travel up from Portsmouth and with a bit of inside knowledge I can safely say Wanderers will finish above Pompey.
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Together Pompey, Crassus and Caesar succeed in getting Caesar elected consul and in passing legislation that mainly benefited them.
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The death of Pompey signalled the end of the optimate cause, and the beginning of Caesar's supremacy.
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Friday, April 17, 2009 at 3: 18 p.m. POMPEY (AP) -- An 18-year-old man has admitted breaking into a Pompey hunter's home and helping steal his collection of big-game animal pelts, including a rare polar bear skin rug.
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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.
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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.
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A distracted Pompey dispatches Durio, his top aide, to take care of the gold, loading his vault onto an ox- drawn wagon.
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Ray Daniel, Pompey's regular left-back, will be out for three weeks after damaging ankle ligaments against Millwall.
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In contrast, Pompey didn't have a clue and were taken off guard.
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After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey and Crassus.
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He did so mercilessly in his Siege de la colonne de Pompée, showing the scholars perched atop an ancient column known as Pompey's Pillar and fending off attacking Mamelukes with a barrage of books and scientific instruments.
Napoleon on Madison
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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.
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Nepos says that if the rebels in Etruria are as serious as we make out, Pompey himself should be brought home to deal with them.
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A late bloomer, the diminutive Pompey took up track for the first time after her family migrated to the US in 1992, following in the footsteps of her younger sister Allison.
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I called Pompey's attention to the subject, and he — he agreed with me.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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“If this Senate will not vote Pompey the command,” said Nepos, “then I give you fair warning that I shall lay a bill before the people as soon as I take office as tribune demanding his recall.”
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When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome.
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Pompey was beside him, absurd in his augural cap and carrying a divining wand.
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An 'Pompey an' Sophy-Sophia dey didn't have no mo'n a broomstick weddin 'nohow -- but of co'se _dey did have de broomstick.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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The death of Pompey signalled the end of the optimate cause, and the beginning of Caesar's supremacy.
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At once I called Pompey's attention to the subject, and he -- he agreed with me.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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The one growing ever stonier, the other ever more bewildered, Pompey and Cicero left the villa to gather its silence fast around it, and stood outside on the Via Nomentana looking both ways.
The Grass Crown
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Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you; so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the
Measure for Measure
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Among those buried in the necropolis was a set designer for Pompey's Theater, notorious for being near the spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.
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“Then let us have Pompey the Great without his army,” countered Nepos.
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To heal Thefl'alia's ruins, Pompey fled To us for fuccour, and by us lies dead*
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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I come to that conclusion based upon the spiritless performance City put up against Pompey last Saturday.
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III. ii.89 (83,6) [Go -- to kennel, Pompey -- go] It should be remembered, that Pompey is the common name of a dog, to which allusion is made in the mention of a _kennel_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Pompey, to render himself popular, had disannulled the Laws of Sylla which limited the power of the people.
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NEPOS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother of Celer and brother-in-law of Pompey, who sends him back from his legateship in the East to stand for the tribuneship and guard his interests in Rome
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It did seem reasonable that he would have retained the first name of John, since he presumably had held it most of his life and it is not of the ilk which immediately harked of slavery, like Pompey or Prince.
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Clark cut his name on this rock, which is not so far from the railway station they call Pompey's
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri
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Pompey is afterwards dismayed to attend to which a Roman in actuality is in a field, which troops avocation "Can from a path of Egypt's widow pluck/The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Football chiefs rejected a Pompey plea to sell players outside the transfer window to help stave off the threat of administration last month.
The Sun
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Caesar, as consul, employed Pompey's veterans to overcome violently optimate opposition.
B. Military Dynasts and Civil Wars
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The fact that every club Harry has ever been in charge of – Bournemouth, West Ham, Southampton, Pompey – has stumbled into a financial quagmire after he left is actually the surest indication there could possibly be of the canniness of his stewardship.
For Steve Claridge, setting the team upright is a vertical challenge
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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
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All anyone could talk about now was the coming confrontation between Crassus and Pompey; the plight of the Sicilian was a bore.
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Last week's defeat against Pompey dragged the club back into the thick of a relegation battle.
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While assassins approached the tent, Pompey began barking and scratching to warn his master, finally jumping on William's face to wake him.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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-- 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.
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Pompey’s house on the Esquiline had been decorated with the captured beaks of fifty pirate triremes and was nowadays known as the domus rostra—a shrine to his admirers all across Italy.
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Pompey, a respected black businessman in Nantucket.
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With the victories of Pompey (88 – 63 bce), pearls were brought back from the Orient in plenitude.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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*** Pompeys Pillar is one of the most famous sandstone buttes in America.
What was the name of Sacajawea's baby that made the trek with Lewis and Clark?
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Pompey's new look side is unrated, but after all their summer activity, which might not have ended, they too have good reason to go into the opening encounter high on confidence.
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Finally the republic was torn to pieces by rival power-hungry tribunes or dictators like Pompey, Sulla, and Julius Caesar.
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Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar followed, some of whom assumed the title of dictator and some of whom merely aggrandized their power through their wealth or their ability to dominate elections to the various magistracies.
Philip Giraldi: Neocon Ancient History
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He kept his head down in the latter, anxious in particular to avoid falling into conversation with Pompey the Great, fearful that Pompey might ask him to drop his prosecution of Verres and give up his candidacy for aedile or—worse—offer to help, which would leave Cicero beholden to the mightiest man in Rome, an obligation he was determined to avoid.
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In 36, Octavian defeated Pompey's son Sextus Pompeius at Naulochus, and also ousted Lepidus from the triumvirate.
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Much more than a military commander, Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces.
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Actually Caecilius was a real person who lived in Pompey and the remains of his house are in all the tourist brochures - hence his inclusion in the CLC.
Schoolboy Latin
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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
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Sertorius, began to waver and revolt; whereupon Sertorius uttered various arrogant and scornful speeches against Pompey, saying in derision, that he should want no other weapon but a ferula and rod to chastise this boy with, if he were not afraid of that old woman, meaning Metellus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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The Eagles returned from the home of the league leaders with a well-earned point after a Julian Gray goal cancelled out an opener by Pompey's former England international Paul Merson.
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When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome.
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Indeed, he returned 6 million sestertii seized from Pompey's legate at Corfinum in the first weeks of the war.
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West Bromwich 3 West Ham 2: Zola discovers size of task on and off field Portsmouth 2 Middlesbrough 1: Defoe and Crouch on song as Pompey tune up for Uefa Cup Manchester City 1 Chelsea 3: Lampard adds a note of reality to City 'razzmatazz'
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They soon established that Pompey had a force of eight well-equipped legions, with his personal headquarters encamped—at any rate the last time Nepos had seen him—south of Judea, a few hundred miles from the city of Petra.
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The P's take us from pandowdy to pompey to pudjicky; the Q's offer qualmish, quick start, and quiddle; in R we find ramstugious, redd up, robin snow, and rumpelkammer; and S yields saluggi, say-so, and smearcase.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
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Football chiefs rejected a Pompey plea to sell players outside the transfer window to help stave off the threat of administration last month.
The Sun
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On the Ides of March, two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey's new theater.
