The corpus record — Latin

Pompejus

Pompejus · m

name of a Roman

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Where it lives

De Bello Hispaniensi 73 · 120.6/10k
De Bello Civili 218 · 67.5/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 34 · 50.02/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 28 · 42/10k
Divus Julius 34 · 34.88/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 50 · 27.25/10k
De Lege Agraria 33 · 23.94/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 23 · 21.87/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 56 · 21.26/10k
Letters to Atticus 256 · 20.82/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 8 · 19.64/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 7 · 17.93/10k

Densest 12 of 112 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pompējus — Lewis & Short

Pompējus (trisyl.) or Pompēïus (quadrisyl.), i, m., and Pompēja, ae, f.,

I name of a Roman gens. So the famous Cn. Pompejus Magnus, the triumvir, Caes. B. C. 3, 86; Cic. Fam. 3, 4, 2; 13, 41, 1; id. Imp. Pomp. 1 sqq. et saep.—In fem., Pompeja, his sister, Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 2; another, his daughter, Hirt. B. Afr. 95, 3; a third, daughter of Q. Pompeius, wife of Julius Cœsar, divorced from him, Suet. Caes. 6; 74.— Hence,

A Pompējus (Pompēïus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pompey, Pompeian: domus, Ov. P. 4, 5, 9: lex, Caes. B. C. 3, 1: porticus, at Rome, Prop. 2, 23, 45 (3, 30, 11); cf. Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 59; Suet. Caes. 81: via, leading through Sicily, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 169: ficus, Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 70.—

B Pompējānus, a, um, adj., of Pompey, Pompeian: equitatus, Caes. B. C. 3, 58: classis, id. ib. 3, 101: triumphi, Luc. 3, 166: caedes, id. 10, 350: porticus (usually called Pompeja porticus), Vitr. 5, 9: theatrum, Mart. 6, 9; 14, 29; hence also, Notus, which blew in Pompey's theatre, id. 11, 21: ficus (also called Pompeja ficus), Cloat. ap. Macr. S. 2, 16: partes, Sen. Ep. 71, 9.—

2 Subst.: Pompējāni, ōrum, m., the adherents or soldiers of Pompey, Pompey's party, Pompey's troops, Caes. B. C. 3, 46; Vell. 2, 52, 4; Sen. Ira, 3, 30, 5.—In sing., Tac. A. 4, 34: Pompejanus Cilix, Luc. 4, 448.

In the wild

Pompeio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.7.7
Pompeio Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.46
Pompeium Cicero, Philippicae 2.54
Pompeius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 16.12.3
Pompeium Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.25
Pompeii Lucan, Pharsalia 2.280

6 of 1,755 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.