Sextus Pompeius Magnus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 14.1 §2 whether what we hear about Sextus is firm enough

  Sextus Pompeius, the surviving younger son of Pompey the Great, who in 44 BC still commanded Republican forces in Spain and was a hoped-for rallying point against the Caesarians.

• Ad Atticum 14.4 §1 and where Sextus himself will come out

  Sextus Pompeius, Pompey's surviving son, still under arms in Spain in 44 BC; Cicero anxiously watches which way his considerable forces will turn.

• Ad Atticum 14.13 §2 if Sextus stays under arms

  Sextus Pompeius, the surviving son of Pompey the Great, was still in arms in Spain; Cicero reckons that his refusal to lay them down makes a renewed civil war certain.

• Ad Atticum 14.22 §2 if Pompeius arrives with a strong army

  Sextus Pompeius, younger son of Pompey the Great, was at large in Spain and the western seas in 44 BC; Cicero fears that his arrival with a Republican army would reignite civil war.

• Ad Atticum 15.20 §3 Pompeius has been received at Carteia

  Sextus Pompeius, surviving younger son of Pompey the Great, who in 44 BC was rebuilding Republican forces in Further Spain; Carteia, near the Strait of Gibraltar, was a stronghold of his.

• Ad Atticum 15.21 §2 so as to be off before Sextus, who they say is on his way

  Sextus Pompeius, surviving son of Pompey the Great, still under arms in Spain in 44 BC; rumours of his approach to Italy make Cicero hurry his departure, wary of being caught up in a fresh civil war.

• Ad Atticum 15.22 §1 I wrote that Sextus was on his way

  Sextus Pompeius, who in 44 BC kept Republican forces under arms in Spain; Cicero explains he had reported Sextus's approach not as an accomplished fact but as a near certainty, since Sextus would on no account lay down his arms.

• Ad Atticum 15.29 §1 As for Sextus throwing his shield away

  Sextus Pompeius, the surviving younger son of Pompey the Great, who in 44 BC still held forces in Spain; 'throwing his shield away' (a proverbial mark of cowardice in flight) refers to a report that he had given up the struggle, which Cicero regrets.

• Ad Atticum 16.1 §4 On Sextus, the report was held to be sure

  Sextus Pompeius, the surviving son of Pompey the Great, was still under arms in Spain; rumour had him taking up arms again, which Cicero feared meant renewed servitude even without open civil war.

• Ad Atticum 16.4 §1 had come from Sextus

  Sextus Pompey, the surviving son of Pompey the Great, still under arms in Spain in 44 BC; his demand that all armies be disbanded made him a wild card in the post-Ides politics.

• Ad Familiares 11.1 §4 Sextus Pompeius and Bassus Caecilius

  Sextus Pompeius (Pompey the Great's surviving son) held forces in Spain and the western seas, and Q. Caecilius Bassus held out for the Pompeian cause in Syria; Decimus names them as the only standing armies the assassins might fall back on. "This news about Caesar" is the report of the dictator's murder reaching the provinces.