Quotes About Pompeius

The Sanctuary was empty and the Holy of Holies untenanted. —BOOK V OF THE HISTORIES BY TACITUS, COMMENTING ON THE DISCOVERY OF GNAEUS POMPEIUS MAGNUS UPON ENTERING THE HOLY OF HOLIES IN 63 BCE

In 35 B.C., Sextus Pompeius was executed, presumably with Antony's approval.

His humiliating double defeat at sea not only signaled the ruin of his hopes to eliminate Sextus Pompeius

Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.