(adj.adj.) : Pompējus (trisyl.) or Pompēïus (quadrisyl.), i, m., and Pompēja, ae, f.
* Name of a Roman gens. So the famous Cn. Pompejus Magnus, the triumvir, Caes. B. C. 3, 86; Cic. Fam. 3, 4, 2; 13, 41, 1; id. Imp. Pomp. 1 sqq. et saep.—In fem., Pompeja, his sister, Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 2; another,his daughter,Hirt. B. Afr. 95, 3; a third,daughter of Q. Pompeius, wife of Julius Coesar, divorced from him,Suet. Caes. 6; 74.— Hence
* Pompējus (Pompēïus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pompey, Pompeian: domus,Ov. P. 4, 5, 9: lex,Caes. B. C. 3, 1: porticus,at Rome,Prop. 2, 23, 45 (3, 30, 11); cf. Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 59; Suet. Caes. 81: via,leading through Sicily,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 169: ficus,Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 70.
* Pompējānus, a, um, adj., of Pompey, Pompeian: equitatus,Caes. B. C. 3, 58: classis,id. ib. 3, 101: triumphi,Luc. 3, 166: caedes,id. 10, 350: porticus (usually called Pompeja porticus),Vitr. 5, 9: theatrum,Mart. 6, 9; 14, 29; hence also, Notus,which blew in Pompey's theatre,id. 11, 21: ficus (also called Pompeja ficus), Cloat. ap. Macr. S. 2, 16: partes,Sen. Ep. 71, 9.
* Subst.: Pompējāni, ōrum, m., the adherents or soldiers of Pompey, Pompey's party, Pompey's troops, Caes. B. C. 3, 46; Vell. 2, 52, 4; Sen. Ira, 3, 30, 5.—In sing., Tac. A. 4, 34: Pompejanus Cilix,Luc. 4, 448.