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Pompei

Pompei is a Latin form of Pompeius, meaning “Pompey (Cn. Pompeius Magnus, general and rival of Caesar); a member of the Pompeian clan”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 381 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.6.1: His rebus in Italiam Caesari nuntiatis, cum iam ille urbanas res virtute Cn. Pompei commodiorem in statum pervenisse intellegeret, in Transalpinam Galliam profectus est.

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.3.6: … atrem fecit? Sine herede ero qui paulo ante habui filios duos tales, ut ex illis uel unus cuilubet satis sit? POMPEI SILONIS. Videte quam modeste agam:

All forms of Pompeius (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.