biography
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Pompey
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in full Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known as Pompey the Great
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pronunciation:
[pompee]
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| lived:
| (106–48 BC)
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| biography:
| Roman politician and general of the late Republic, whose outstanding military talents, as shown by his victories over the Marians (83–82 BC), Sertorius (77 BC), Spartacus (71 BC), the pirates (67 BC), and Mithridates VI (66 BC), put him at the forefront of Roman politics from an early age. He was also an organizer of genius, and his settlement of the East after the Mithridatic Wars (63 BC) established the pattern of Roman administration there for well over a century. Consistently outmanoeuvred in the 50s BC by Julius Caesar, he was finally defeated by him in the Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC), and was assassinated in Egypt shortly after. |
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