Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POMP1767 Cn. Pompeius (45) Sex. f. Cn. n. Strabo 'Menogenes'

Life Dates

  • 132?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R126.

  • 87, death (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Lightning strike.

Relationships

son of
? Sex. Pompeius (17) (pr. c. 120) (Badian 1990)
brother of
Sex. Pompeius (18) (Sex. f. Cn. n.) (pr. before 89) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Brut. 175, Cic. Phil. XII 27

married to
? Lucilia (33) (daughter of? M. (or M'.) Lucilius (11) M. f. Pom. (Rufus?)? (sen. 129)) (Zmeskal 2009)
father of
Cn. Pompeius (31) Cn. f. Sex. n. Clu. Magnus (cos. 70) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. b.c. I 40 (179), Asc. Pison. 14C, Asc. Pison. 3C, Cic. Manil. 28, Cic. Pis. 58, Dio frg. 107.1 (XXX-XXXV), Gell. XV 4.3, Liv. per. 85, Plin. n.h. VII 54, Plut. Pomp. 1.1, Strab. V 1.6 (213 C), Suet. rhet. 3, Vell. II 15.3, Vell. II 21.1f., Vell. II 29.1, Vell. II 29.5

? Pompeia (56) (daughter of? Cn. Pompeius (45) Sex. f. Cn. n. Strabo 'Menogenes' (cos. 89)) (DPRR Team)
? Pompeia (53) (daughter of? Cn. Pompeius (45) Sex. f. Cn. n. Strabo 'Menogenes' (cos. 89)) (Zmeskal 2009)
uncle of
Sex. Pompeius (19) Sex. f. Sex.? n. (cos. 35) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plut. Cato min. 3.1

Career

  • Quaestor before 105 Sardinia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • D.- G. (4.325, no. 22) and Klein (Verwaltungsbeamten Siz. Sard. 286) suggest the date 104 B.C., probably allowing the ten years which was the usual interval between the quaestorship and a possible praetorship before 92. The ancient sources give no definite date. Caesar (RE no. 135) would still be a young man in 103 since his brother attained the consulship in 90 and he was forcibly removed from his illegal candidacy in 87. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Shocked Roman opinion by attempting to prosecute his commander, T. Albucius, Propraetor in Sardinia (see Promagistrates), and was refused in favor of C. Iulius Caesar Strabo (Cic. Div. in Caec. 63, and Ps.-Ascon. 203 Stangl; Off. 2.50; Suet. Iul. 55.2). See D.- G. 4.325ff., no. 22. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 89. Quaestor ca. 106. After his quaestorship under T. Albucius (2) in Sardinia, he attempted to prosecute his former commander but was refused (Cic. Div. In Caec. 63; MRR 1.560, 562, note 1; Gruen, RPCC 171-173; Sumner, Orators 77, 80). The date usually suggested for his quaestorship is ca. 104, with Albucius' praetorship in 105, followed by his command in Sardinia (MRR 1.560). Badian however notes that Pompeius Strabo was the prosecutor of Fabius Maximus Eburnus for putting his son to death and caused him to retire into exile (Oros. 5.15.8; cf. Val. Max. 6.1.5, naming Servilianus, who was never censor; Ps.-Quintil., Decl. 3.17, naming Eburnus; Gruen, TAPhA 95, 1964, 101-106; RPCC 171-173; Badian, Klio 66, 1984, 306-309). From the phrase die dicta in Orosius (5.16.8) Badian infers that Strabo accused Eburnus before the people as tribune of the plebs. The date is probably 104, so Strabo's quaestorship may be placed no later than 106, and his tribunate, not otherwise attested, in 104. Praetor ca. 92. His praetorship may be dated to 94 or 93, as 92 is merely the latest legal date, and his probable command in Macedonia as promagistrate to the next year (IG(2) 3.4101-SIG(3) 701, note; see M. Gelzer, Kl. Schr. 2.109-110; Pompeius 27; and on Macedonia, F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1980, 310).[165x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Plebis 104 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 89. Quaestor ca. 106. After his quaestorship under T. Albucius (2) in Sardinia, he attempted to prosecute his former commander but was refused (Cic. Div. In Caec. 63; MRR 1.560, 562, note 1; Gruen, RPCC 171-173; Sumner, Orators 77, 80). The date usually suggested for his quaestorship is ca. 104, with Albucius' praetorship in 105, followed by his command in Sardinia (MRR 1.560). Badian however notes that Pompeius Strabo was the prosecutor of Fabius Maximus Eburnus for putting his son to death and caused him to retire into exile (Oros. 5.15.8; cf. Val. Max. 6.1.5, naming Servilianus, who was never censor; Ps.-Quintil., Decl. 3.17, naming Eburnus; Gruen, TAPhA 95, 1964, 101-106; RPCC 171-173; Badian, Klio 66, 1984, 306-309). From the phrase die dicta in Orosius (5.16.8) Badian infers that Strabo accused Eburnus before the people as tribune of the plebs. The date is probably 104, so Strabo's quaestorship may be placed no later than 106, and his tribunate, not otherwise attested, in 104. Praetor ca. 92. His praetorship may be dated to 94 or 93, as 92 is merely the latest legal date, and his probable command in Macedonia as promagistrate to the next year (IG(2) 3.4101-SIG(3) 701, note; see M. Gelzer, Kl. Schr. 2.109-110; Pompeius 27; and on Macedonia, F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1980, 310).[165x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor before 91 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 3 This is the latest date possible under the Leges Annales. Pompeius and Cato are both termed Praetor (on Pompeius, Oros. 5.18. 10; cf. Liv. Per. 74; on Cato, Liv.,. Per. 74; Oros. 5.18.17; cf. Flor. 2.6.14) in reference to their commands in 90 B. C. in the Social War. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Gell. 13.20.12. See 94, Aediles and note 4; and 91, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 89. Quaestor ca. 106. After his quaestorship under T. Albucius (2) in Sardinia, he attempted to prosecute his former commander but was refused (Cic. Div. In Caec. 63; MRR 1.560, 562, note 1; Gruen, RPCC 171-173; Sumner, Orators 77, 80). The date usually suggested for his quaestorship is ca. 104, with Albucius' praetorship in 105, followed by his command in Sardinia (MRR 1.560). Badian however notes that Pompeius Strabo was the prosecutor of Fabius Maximus Eburnus for putting his son to death and caused him to retire into exile (Oros. 5.15.8; cf. Val. Max. 6.1.5, naming Servilianus, who was never censor; Ps.-Quintil., Decl. 3.17, naming Eburnus; Gruen, TAPhA 95, 1964, 101-106; RPCC 171-173; Badian, Klio 66, 1984, 306-309). From the phrase die dicta in Orosius (5.16.8) Badian infers that Strabo accused Eburnus before the people as tribune of the plebs. The date is probably 104, so Strabo's quaestorship may be placed no later than 106, and his tribunate, not otherwise attested, in 104. Praetor ca. 92. His praetorship may be dated to 94 or 93, as 92 is merely the latest legal date, and his probable command in Macedonia as promagistrate to the next year (IG(2) 3.4101-SIG(3) 701, note; see M. Gelzer, Kl. Schr. 2.109-110; Pompeius 27; and on Macedonia, F. Papazoglou, ANRW 2.7.1, 1980, 310).[165x] (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 747, footnote 264 (Brennan 2000)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 90 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Served under the Consul Rutilius (Cic. Font. 43; App. BC 1.40). Besieged in Firmum, he won an important engagement, and proceeded to the siege of Asculum (Liv. Per. 74; App. BC 1.48; Oros. 5.18.17; cf. Vell. 2.16.4; Frontin. Str. 3.17.8; Flor. 2.6.14; Eutrop. 5.3.3). See D.-G. 4.325, no. 22. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Triumphator 89 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus. MRR II.32, Itgenshorst no. 241, Rich no. 241. (Rich 2014)
  • Consul 89 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. Font. 43; Diod. 37.2.8; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129, 480f.; Ascon. 79C; Plin. NH 3.70; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 5.18.18; Cassiod.; and on Pompeius, Cic. Phil. 12.27. Pompeius held command in the northern theatre of war, first at the siege of Asculum, which he captured late in the year (ILS 8888; Liv. Per. 76; Vell. 2.21.1; App. BC 1.48; Oros. 5.18.18-21 and 26-29; cf. the inscribed slingshots, CIL 12.2, p. 560ff.), and, after the death of his colleague, against the Marsi and other tribes of central Italy (Cic. Phil. 12.27; Liv. Per. 74, and 75; Frontin. Str. 3.17.8; App. BC 1.50, and 52; Oros. 5.18.25; Macrob. Sat. 1.11.24). He celebrated as Consul a triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus (Aet. Tr., Degrassi 84f., 563; Val. Max. 6.9.9; Vell. 2.65.3; Ascon. 14C; Plin. NH 7.135; Gell. 15.4.3; Dio 43.15.5; 49.21.3), but failed to bring the booty to the treasury (Oros. 5.18.27-29; cf. Plut. Pomp. 1). A Lex Pompeia confirmed the citizenship of the Cispadane towns in Gaul, the Latin right of the Transpadane ones, and attached native tribes to some of these towns (Ascon. X; Plin. NH 3.138; cf. Dio 37.9.3). Cato, with unruly and undisciplined troops, attacked the Marsi (Sisenna, fr. 52 Peter; Dio 30-35, fr. 100), and after an initial success was defeated and killed (Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f.; Liv. Per. 75; Vell. 2.16.4; App. BC 1.50; Eutrop. 5.3.2; Oros. 5.18.24). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 88 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Liv. Per. 77, cf. 76; Vell. 2.20.1; Val. Max. 9.7, ext. 2). ]Received the surrender of the Vestini and the Paeligni (Liv. Per. 75, and 76). Suspected of inciting the mutiny among his former troops in which the Consul Pompeius Rufus was killed (see above, Consuls; Vell., Val. Max., Liv.; cf. App. BC 1.63), and after this event resumed his command over them (App. BC 1.63). (Broughton MRR II)
    • 9 In Liv. Per. 75, the surrender of the Vestini is placed in 89, in Per. 76 it is placed with that of the other Paeligni in the proconsulate of Pompeius but before the fall of Asculum, which took place in 89. Perhaps the Vestini surrendered in 89 and the Paeligni in 88 and the epitomizer has combined both notices. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 87 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (see 88, Promagistrates; App. BC 1.66). He played a dubious part in the Bellum Octavianum, though nominally on the side of Octavius and effective in repulsing the Marians from the Janiculum, for he was (Broughton MRR II)

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