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Pompey the Great, Latin in full Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
(born September 29, 106 bce, Rome—died September 28, 48 bce, Pelusium, Egypt), one of the great statesmen and generals of the late Roman Republic, a triumvir (61–54 bce) who was an associate and later an opponent of Julius Caesar. He was initially called Magnus (“the Great”) by his troops in Africa (82–81 bce), and he assumed the cognomen Magnus after 81.
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(106 BC-48 BC). In the stormy times that marked the close of the Roman republic, Gnaeus Pompeius was one of Rome’s celebrated leaders. Born in the same year as the orator Cicero, he was four years older than Julius Caesar.
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