Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 29 September 48 BC), generally referred to in English as Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and politician.
Quotes
Life of Pompey
- Quotes of Pompey, as portrayed in Life of Pompey by Plutarch
- More people worship the rising than the setting sun.
- Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
- To navigate is necessary, to live is not.
- To sailors who were defending Rome from a sea invasion.
Quotes about Pompey
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- Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!- Joseph Addison, in Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, sc. 1
- O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.- William Shakespeare, in Julius Cæsar (1599); Marullus in Act I, sc. 1
- And besides, he was what? 25? He couldn't stand for a Praetorship even if he wanted to. But like I say, I don't care. I'm fine with it. I'm happy for him. Hooray for Pompey. Pompey the Great.
- Mike Duncan describing Crassus's view of Pompey in The History of Rome Episode 35- Crassus and Pompey
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