Pompey
Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) (29 September 106 BC – 29 September 48 BC) was a Roman general and politician.
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- Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!
- To the defenders of a besieged city who were crying outrage
- Source: Plutarch
- More people worship the rising than the setting sun
- Spoken by a young Pompey to the Dictator Sulla to get Sulla to award him a triumph
- Source: [Plutarch/Life of Pompey]
- To navigate is necessary, to live is not.
- To sailors who were defending Rome from a sea invasion.
- Source: Plutarch
