Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POMP1805 Q. Pompeius (39) Q. f. A.? n. Rufus

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Life Dates

• Before 129?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
• 88, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

  Murdered in mutiny.

Relationships

son of

? Q. Pompeius (12) A. f. (cos. 141) (Badian 1990)

brother of

? Pompeia (51) (daughter of Q. Pompeius (12) A. f. (cos. 141)) (DPRR Team)

father of

Q. Pompeius (40) Rufus (son of Q. Pompeius (39) Q. f. A.? n. Rufus (cos. 88)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plut. Mar. 35.2, Plut. Sulla 8.3, Vell. II 18.6

adoptive father of

? Q. Pompeius (42) Q. f. Arn. Rufus (pr. 63) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

• Tribunus Plebis 100 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • 5 In our sources only the name Pompeius is given, but identification with the Consul of 88 is very probable, since the interval between tribunate and consulship and the political sympathies of the Tribune both agree with it. (Broughton MRR II)
  • The bill of these two Tribunes to recall Metellus Numidicus from exile was opposed by Marius (still Consul, December, 100), and vetoed by Furius (App. BC 1.33; Oros. 5.17.11; cf. Plut. -Mar. 31.1; Gell. 13.20.14; Dio 28, fr. 95.1-3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
• Tribunus Plebis? 99 (Thommen 1989) Expand
  • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
• Decemvir Sacris Faciundis? 95 to 89 (Rüpke 2005)
• Praetor 91 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Cic. De Or. 1.168; Val. Max. 3.5.2. See D.-G. 4.317f., no. 5. (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 747, footnote 268 (Brennan 2000)
• Consul 88 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Grueber, CRRBM 1.484; Cic. Cluent. 11; Leg. Agr. 1. 10; 2.38; Brut. 306; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 55, 129, 482f.; Fast. Sac., CIL 12.1, p. 60-ILS 9338, no. 3; Liv. Per. 77; Vell. 2.17.1, and 20.1; Ascon. 64C; Plut. Sull. 6.10; App. BC 1.56; Obseq. 56; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Fest. 516L; on Sulla, Diod. 37.25; Eutrop. 5.3.3; and on Pompeius, CIL 12. 2.710.-1. de Deios 4.1.1848, cf. 1849; Loewy, I. Gr. Bild. 201, no. 289; Cic. Lael. 2. Sulla received the province of Asia and the command against Mithridates, but when he opposed the bills of the Tribune Sulpicius (see below), one of which gave that command to Marius, he was attacked and fled to his army. He then returned with it and occupied Rome, annul1ed the legislation of Sulpicius, who was put to death, and killed or exiled his other opponents including Marius (Plut. Sull. 6.10; 7.1-10.2; Mar. 34.1-35.4; App. BC 1.55- 63; Mith. 22, and 30; cf. Cic. Phil. 8.7; Diod. 37.29; Liv. Per. 77; Val. Max. 3.8.5; 6.5.7; 8.6.2; 9.7, ext. 1; Flor. 2.9.6-8; Eutrop. 5.4, Auct. Vir. Ill. 75.7-8; Oros 5.19.3-7). Meantime, Pompeius co-operated with Sulla against Sulpicius and in the occupation of Rome (Liv. Per. 77; App. BC 1.59; cf - Cic. Lael. 2). He was given command of the army of Pompeius Strabo, who in turn is suspected of inciting the mutiny in which the Consul Pompeius was later killed (Liv. Per. 77; Vell. 2.20.1; Val. Max. 9.7, ext. 2; App. BC 1.63). They carried a series of measures, one for the exile of the Marian partisans (Vell. 2.19.1; Flor. 2.9.6-8), a second providing that all measures be considered by the Senate before submission to an assembly, a third that laws be carried only in the Comitia Centuriata, a fourth putting some further limitation on the Tribune5 (App. BC 1.59; cf. Liv. Per. 77), a fifth adding 300 personnss to the Senat,9 (App.), a sixth regarding colonies (Liv.), and a seventh applying interest payments on the principal of debts (Fest. 516L), perhaps also one limiting the application of the sponsio (Gaius 3.124). Sulla held the elections and, after securing the oath of the Consulselect Cinna wid Octavius to support his measures (Plut. Sull. 10.3-4; Dio 30-35, fr. 102.3-4), departed for the war with Mithridates (see also Jacoby, -FGrH 2B.1151, no. 252). (Broughton MRR II)
• Decemvir Sacris Faciundis 88 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
  • See Grueber, CRRBM 1.484f., coins of Pompeius Rufus (Tr. Pl. 52), with the insignia of Sulla's augurate on the reverse and perhaps those of his colleague's decemvirate on the obverse. (Broughton MRR II)

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