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...Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages. At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an English gen...

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...litically, the Psalms of Solomon are anti-Maccabee, and some psalms in the collection show a clear awareness of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem under Pompey in 63 BCE, metaphorically treating him as a dragon who had been sent by God to punish the Maccabees. The Odes of Solomon is a collection of 42 odes attributed to Solomon. Various scholars have dated the composition of ...

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...nd on whom it is very hard to form any cer- tain and uniform judgment. For Pompey could pardon the whole city of the Mamertines, though furiously ince... ...er acci- dents. What affliction could be greater or more just than that of Pompey’s friends, who, in his ship, were spectators of that horrible murder... ...o much did the prolonga- tion of five or six months of life cost the great Pompey; and, in our fathers’ days, Ludovico Sforza, the tenth Duke of Milan... ... a good or an ill repute to their whole life. Scipio, the father-in-law of Pompey, in dying, well removed the ill opinion that till then every one had... ...ut to death a young man, of an illustrious family, and nephew to the great Pompey, and this made him break out into several pas- sionate complainings.... ...directed to other ends; mere adulterate paint. I could wish that Paluel or Pompey, those two noted dancers of my time, could have taught us to cut cap... ...s the second. And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, “Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni.” [“The victorio... ..., and beneath a smiling visage, gay beneath a sombre air.”—Petrarch.] When Pompey’s head was presented to Caesar, the histo- ries tell us that he turn... ...ribune Metellus, who, attempting to publish a decree for the calling in of Pompey with his army into the city at the time of Catiline’s conspiracy, wa...

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... second volume of two covers his last years, BC 57-43 and the personal and political upheavals that surrounded them: the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the death of his daughter Tullia, Caesar's dictatorship and assassination, Cicero's antagonism against Antony in the Philippics and his final struggle for the republic. Having used Cicero's letters and speeches to gui...

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...ing that is useless and costly. I have got a monkey and a little black boy—Pompey, sir, go and give a dish of chocolate to Colonel Graveairs,—and a pa... ... spaniel, and I must have a husband. Cupid, you hear?” “Iss, Missis!” says Pompey, a little grinning negro Lord Peterborrow gave her, with a bird of P... ...s, Missis!” says Beatrix, imitating the child. “And if hus- band not come, Pompey must go fetch one.” And Pompey went away grinning with his chocolate...

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...GE PAPERS CHAPTER V – THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE ‘How many Caesars and Pompeys, by mere inspirations of the names, have been rendered worthy of th...

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...or devout preachers of patience and humility. Marius and Sylla, Caesar and Pompey, Anthony and Augustus, did not draw 27 V oltaire their swords and s... ...ter of Cato is, in my opinion, vastly superior to that of Cornelia in the “Pompey” of Corneille, for Cato is great without any- thing like fustian, an...

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...h watch, being sunrise; and the idolaters, in fulfilment of the promise of Pompey, should be awaiting us with the lambs for the sacrifices.” Simeon, A... ...Thou forgettest, however, Ben-Levi,” replied Abel-Phittim, “that the Roman Pompey, who is now impiously besieging the city of the Most High, has no as...

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...ing that is useless and costly. I have got a monkey and a little black boy—Pompey, sir, go and give a dish of chocolate to Colonel Graveairs,—and a pa... ... spaniel, and I must have a husband. Cupid, you hear?” “Iss, Missis!” says Pompey, a little grinning negro Lord Peterborrow gave her, with a bird of P... ...s, Missis!” says Beatrix, imitating the child. “And if hus- band not come, Pompey must go fetch one.” And Pompey went away grinning with his chocolate...