person
Q. Pompeius
also: Quintus Pompeius
Q. Pompeius, consul 141 BC, the first member of his obscure family to attain the consulship — a standing novus-homo exemplum (Verr. 2.5.181; Pro Mur. 16-17). Censor 131 with Q. Metellus Macedonicus; his Spanish command of 141-139 was reckoned a disaster. He was prosecuted by the Servilii Caepiones (Pro Font. 27; Brut. 96).
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.54 Quintus Pompeius
Quintus Pompeius, consul 141 BC, who as commander in Spain made a treaty with Numantia and then disavowed it before the Senate. Cicero cites him as a "cunning" rather than merely brazen wrongdoer.