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Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Consul in 89 and father of Pompey the Great

🏛️ Career

  1. 92 BCE
    (aged 43)
    Praetor

    Broughton: 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.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) on Pompeius, Oros. 5.18. 10; cf. Liv. Per. 74; on Cato, Liv.,. Per. 74; Oros. 5.18.17; cf. Flor. 2.6.14
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Porcius Cato (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 92 BCE (Praetor) , 89 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sextius Calvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Papirius Carbo (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 89 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Porcius Cato (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 89 BCE
    (aged 46)
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Porcius Cato

    Broughton: 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).

    Sources (8)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Cic. Font. 43; Diod. 37.2.8; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129, 480f.; Ascon. 79C; Plin. NH 3.70; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 5.18.18; Cassiod.; and on Pompeius, Cic. Phil. 12.27.
      • (a) ILS 8888; Liv. Per. 76; Vell. 2.21.1; App. BC 1.48; Oros. 5.18.18-21 and 26-29; cf. the inscribed slingshots, CIL 12.2, p. 560ff.
      • (b) Cic. Phil. 12.27; Liv. Per. 74, and 75; Frontin. Str. 3.17.8; App. BC 1.50, and 52; Oros. 5.18.25; Macrob. Sat. 1.11.24
      • (c) Aet. Tr., Degrassi 84f., 563; Val. Max. 6.9.9; Vell. 2.65.3; Ascon. 14C; Plin. NH 7.135; Gell. 15.4.3; Dio 43.15.5; 49.21.3
      • (d) Oros. 5.18.27-29; cf. Plut. Pomp. 1
      • (e) Ascon. X; Plin. NH 3.138; cf. Dio 37.9.3
      • (f) Sisenna, fr. 52 Peter; Dio 30-35, fr. 100
      • (g) Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f.; Liv. Per. 75; Vell. 2.16.4; App. BC 1.50; Eutrop. 5.3.2; Oros. 5.18.24
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Porcius Cato (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 92 BCE (Praetor) , 89 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sextius Calvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Papirius Carbo (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 89 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Porcius Cato (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 92 BCE (Praetor)

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    Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus