Pompĭlius Numa, the second king of Rome. See: [Numa]. The descendants of the monarch were called Pompilius Sanguis, an expression applied by Horace to the Pisos. Art of Poetry, li. 292.——Andronicus, a grammarian of Syria, who opened a school at Rome, and had Cicero and Cæsar among his pupils. Suetonius.
Pompĭlia, a daughter of Numa Pompilius. She married Numa Martius, by whom she had Ancus Martius the fourth king of Rome.
Pompīlus, a fisherman of Ionia. He carried into Miletus Ocyroe the daughter of Chesias, of whom Apollo was enamoured; but before he had reached the shore, the god changed the boat into a rock, Pompilus into a fish of the same name, and carried away Ocyroe. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 29; bk. 9, ch. 15; bk. 32, ch. 11.
Pompiscus, an Arcadian. Polyænus, bk. 5.
Pompōnia, the wife of Quintus Cicero, sister to Pomponius Atticus. She punished with the greatest cruelty Philologus, the slave who had betrayed her husband to Antony, and she ordered him to cut his flesh by piecemeal, and afterwards to boil it and eat it in her presence.——A daughter of Pomponius Græcinus, in the age of Augustus, &c.——Another matron, banished from Rome by Domitian, and recalled by Nerva.
Pompōnius, the father of Numa, advised his son to accept the regal dignity which the Roman ambassadors offered to him.——A celebrated Roman intimate with Cicero. He was surnamed Atticus from his long residence at Athens. See: [Atticus].——Flaccus, a man appointed governor of Mœsia and Syria by Tiberius, because he had continued drinking and eating with him for two days without intermission. Suetonius, Tiberius, ch. 42.——A tribune of the people in the time of Servilius Ahala the consul.——Labeo, a governor of Mœsia, accused of ill management in his province. He destroyed himself by opening his veins. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 6, li. 29.——Mela, a Spaniard, who wrote a book on geography. See: [Mela].——A proconsul of Africa, accused by the inhabitants of his province, and acquitted, &c.——A Roman who accused Manlius the dictator of cruelty. He triumphed over Sardinia, of which he was made governor. He escaped from Rome, and the tyranny of the triumvirs, by assuming the habit of a pretor, and by travelling with his servants disguised in the dress of lictors with their fasces.——Secundus, an officer in Germany in the age of Nero. He was honoured with a triumph for a victory over the barbarians of Germany. He wrote some poems greatly celebrated by the ancients for their beauty and elegance. They are lost.——A friend of Caius Gracchus. He was killed in attempting to defend him. Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus.——An officer taken prisoner by Mithridates.——A dissolute youth, &c. Horace, bk. 1, satire 4, li. 52.——Sextus, a lawyer, disciple to Papinian, &c.
Pomposiānus, a Roman put to death by Domitian. He had before been made consul by Vespasian.
Pomptina. See: [Pontina].
Caius Pomptinus, a Roman officer, who conquered the Allobroges after the defeat of Catiline. Cicero bk. 4, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 16; bk. 6, ltr. 3.
Pompus, a king of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 5.