person
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Pompey
also: Pompeius, the son-in-law
Pompey the Great, member of the First Triumvirate; the 'son-in-law' of poem 29 (married to Caesar's daughter Julia), paired with his 'father-in-law' Caesar as ruiners of all.
Reading notes
- The Poems §29 father-in-law and son-in-law
Caesar and Pompey, bound by Pompey's marriage to Caesar's daughter Julia; the two dynasts of the First Triumvirate, blamed together for ruining everything.
- The Poems §55 Magnus
Pompey the Great ('Magnus'); his porticus, the colonnade beside his theater, was a fashionable promenade.