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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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...rians about whether Caesar was involved in the conspiracy; several of Catiline's adherants who survived later joined Caesar's side in his was against Pompey. The difficulty of Cicero's position is throughly treated. Jugurthine War records the war in Numidia c.112 B.C. This war, which introduces the rivals Marius and Sulla to the Roman political scene, recounts the downfall...

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...lowing an attack of Mediterranean pirates on the port of Ostia in 68 BC. It granted Pompey command of the republic's navy as well as untrammeled acc...

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...y of later ages, no longer ago than the 705th year of Rome, when the great Pompey, who had won so many battles and been honoured with so many triumphs... ...rs, especially Cicero and Paterculus, have formed such elogiums; this very Pompey left the battle of Pharsalia before he had lost it, and retreated to...

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... memorable as having polluted its holiest re- cesses: Antiochus Epiphanes, Pompey about a century later, and Titus pretty nearly by the same exact int... ...ntury later, and Titus pretty nearly by the same exact interval later than Pompey. Upon which of these three did any judgment de- scend? Attempts have...

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...A Justice. VARRIUS: ELBOW: a simple constable. FROTH: a foolish gentleman. POMPEY: servant to Mistress Overdone. ABHORSON: an executioner. BARNARD... ...at, what with the gallows and what with poverty, I am custom shrunk. [Enter POMPEY .] How now! what’s the news with you? POMPEY: Yonder man is carri... ...onder man is carried to prison. MISTRESS OVERDONE : Well; what has he done? POMPEY: A woman. MISTRESS OVERDONE : But what’s his offence? POMPEY: G... ..., is there a maid with child by him? Measure for Measure Act I, scene ii 9 POMPEY: No, but there’s a woman with maid by him. You have not heard of ... ...of the proclamation, have you? MISTRESS OVERDONE : What proclamation, man? POMPEY: All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down. MISTRE... ...ucked down. MISTRESS OVERDONE : And what shall become of those in the city? POMPEY: They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too, but that a wi... ...VERDONE : But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be pulled down? POMPEY: To the ground, mistress. MISTRESS OVERDONE: Why, here’s a chang... ... Why, here’s a change indeed in the commonwealth! What shall become of me? POMPEY: Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no clients: though you... ...red. MISTRESS OVERDONE : What’s to do here, Thomas tapster? let’s withdraw. POMPEY: Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the pro vost to prison; and ...

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...me, Mr. Tapster: what’s your name 660 Mr. Tapster? 661 Clo. Pompey. 662 Esc. What else? 663 Clo. Bum, Sir. 664 ... ...peare: First Folio 665 you, so that in the beastliest sence, you are Pompey the 666 great; Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey; howso-e... ...I am a poore fellow that would liue. 670 Esc. How would you liue Pompey? by being a bawd? 671 what doe you thinke of the trade Pompey?... ... Law would allow it, sir. 674 Esc. But the Law will not allow it Pompey; nor it 675 shall not be allowed in Vienna. 676 Clo. ... ... geld and splay all 677 the youth of the City? 678 Esc. No, Pompey. 679 Clo. Truely Sir, in my poore opinion they will too’t ... ...er three pence 688 a Bay: if you liue to see this come to passe, say Pompey 689 told you so. 690 Esc. Thanke you good Pompey; and... ...mplaint whatsoeuer; 693 no, not for dwelling where you doe: if I doe Pompey, I 694 shall beat you to your Tent, and proue a shrewd Caesar ... ... your Tent, and proue a shrewd Caesar 695 to you: in plaine dealing Pompey, I shall haue you whipt; 696 so for this time, Pompey, fare yo... ...Gentleman, 1532 and a friend of mine. 1533 Luc. How now noble Pompey? What, at the wheels 1534 of Caesar? Art thou led in triumph? W...

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...e Plebs to the factions of the Gracchi, of Marius and Sylla, of Caesar and Pompey; in all the [Greek text}‚ of the Grecian repub- lics,—the contest co... ...n the contest of Caesar with the oligarchic knav- ery of Cicero, Cato, and Pompey, no possible exercise of rep- resentative functions (had the people ...

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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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...e kind of chuckle, which lasted for about half a minute, said,— “Paws off, Pompey! Y ou young hangdog, you—egad, yes, aha! ‘pon honour, you’re a lad o...