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Regarding Pompey\'s title
Aetius Helvius Merula Offline
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09-23-2007, 05:09 AM
I've read Rubicon too. Great book! I've also read about Sulla being sarcastic with 'Magnus'. As I recall, Pompey was only 20 or so when he got his career rolling (the Sicilian revolt and the pirates' destruction come to mind), and was very full of himself. And he was also a man on the make, to steal Holland's phrase. He just made it work, though. So I can surely support the sarcasm theory. But for the life of me I can't recall my sources.
---AH Mervla, aka Joel Boynton
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix
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Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 09-22-2007, 07:06 AM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Aetius Helvius Merula - 09-23-2007, 05:09 AM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 09-23-2007, 02:36 PM
Pompey Magnus - by Quintus Sertorius - 10-04-2007, 12:48 PM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by SOCL - 10-04-2007, 12:54 PM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 10-04-2007, 04:20 PM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by M.H. White - 10-04-2007, 06:23 PM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 10-05-2007, 10:53 AM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 10-05-2007, 10:59 AM
Re: Regarding Pompey\'s title - by Sardaukar - 10-11-2007, 06:34 AM

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