POMP2853 Cn.? Pompeius? (Apollophanes 10) Apollophanes

Career

  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 38 Sicilia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A freedman of Pompey, appointed with Demochares to command of the fleet in succession to Menodorus and Menecrates (App. BC 5.84; cf. Suet. Aug. 16, praefectus; Dio 48.47). Sextus Pompey also sent him on a mission to Africa (Dio 48.48.6). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praefectus Classis 38 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • C.187, 195 (MRR lists Apollophanes as legatus but admits that this naval commander's title is not preserved, Suolahti has praefectus classis). (Suolahti 1955)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 36 Sicilia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Commanded a division of Sextus Pompey's fleet at Naulochus (App. BC 5.105-106) and surrendered after the battle. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praefectus Classis 36 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • C.187, 195 (MRR lists Apollophanes as legatus but admits that this naval commander's title is not preserved, Suolahti has praefectus classis). (Suolahti 1955)