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Pompēia


1.

The daughter of Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of the consul of B.C. 88, and of Cornelia, the daughter of the dictator Sulla. She married C. Caesar, subsequently the dictator, in 67, but was divorced by him in 61, because she was suspected of intriguing with Clodins (q. v.), who stealthily introduced himself into her husband's house while she was celebrating the mysteries of the Bona Dea.


2.

The sister of Cn. Pompey, the triumvir. She married C. Memmius, who was killed in the war against Sertorius, in 75.


3.

Daughter of the triumvir by his third wife Mucia. She married Faustus Sulla, the son of the dictator, who perished in the African War, B.C. 46. She afterwards married L. Cornelius Cinna , and her son by this marriage, Cn. Cinna Magnus , entered into a conspiracy against Augustus. As her brother Sextus survived her, she must have died before 35.


4.

Daughter of Sex. Pompey, the son of the triumvir and of Scribonia. At the peace of Misenum in 39 she was betrothed to M. Marcellus, the son of Octavia, the sister of Octavian, but was never married to him. She accompanied her father in his flight to Asia, 36.


5.

Paulina. See Paulina.

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