Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo edit

Consul in 89 and father of Pompey the Great

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Career

92 BCE

Praetor edit

This is the latest date possible under the Leges Annales. Pompeius and Cato are both termed Praetor (a) in reference to their commands in 90 B. C. in the Social War.
89 BCE

Consul edit

Pompeius held command in the northern theatre of war, first at the siege of Asculum, which he captured late in the year (a), and, after the death of his colleague, against the Marsi and other tribes of central Italy (b). He celebrated as Consul a triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus (c), but failed to bring the booty to the treasury (d). A Lex Pompeia confirmed the citizenship of the Cispadane towns in Gaul, the Latin right of the Transpadane ones, and attached native tribes to some of these towns (e). Cato, with unruly and undisciplined troops, attacked the Marsi (f), and after an initial success was defeated and killed (g).