pompa (noun F) : πομπή
* A solemn procession,a public procession of any kind (at public festivals, games, triumphs, marriages, funerals, etc.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: in pompā cum magna vis auri argentique ferretur,Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: per Dionysia pompam ducere,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 92: sollemnes ordine pompas Exequi,Verg. A. 5, 53: sollemnes ducere pompas Ad delubra juvat,id. G. 3, 22: Pontico triumpho inter pompae fercula trium verborum protulit titulum: veni, vidi, vici,Suet. Caes. 37; so, pompa Indica,i. e. the triumphal procession of Bacchus,Mart. 8, 78, 2: cadaver Clodii spoliatum exsequiis, pompā,Cic. Mil. 13, 39; so of a funeral procession, Nep. Att. 22, 4; cf.: pompam funeris ire,to attend a funeral,Ov. F. 6, 663: pompam parare triumphis,id. P. 3, 4, 95: exornaturus victoris superbi pompam,Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 4: pomparum ferculis similes esse (referring to the slowness of such processions),Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.
* Transf.
* A train, suite, retinue, row, array of persons or things (class.), Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 1; Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 17: molesta haec pompa lictorum meorum,Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 2: postremo tota petitio cura ut pompae plena sit,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 13, 52: captivorum,Juv. 10, 281.—Of things: pecuniae pompa,Sen. Ep. 110, 15: ventri portatur pompa, i. e. rich repast, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12: munera certā discurrunt pompā,Tib. 3, 1, 3: sarcinarum,Mart. 12, 32, 25: strepitus pompae armorum,Vulg. Jer. 47, 3.
* Parade, display, ostentation, pomp (class.; syn. apparatus): rhetorum pompa,Cic. Tusc. 4, 21, 48: in dicendo adhibere quandam speciem atque pompam,id. de Or. 2, 72, 294: detraxit muneri suo pompam,Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 2: ad pompam vel ostentationem aliquid accipere,Dig. 13, 6, 3 fin.: genus orationis pompae quam pugnae aptius,Cic. Or. 13, 42; so, eorum partim in pompā, partim in acie illustres esse voluerunt,id. de Or. 2, 22, 94.

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