POMPE, POMPEI, POMPEUS, POMPEYE. Gnaeus Pompeius, 106-48 B.C., was one of the generals who formed the first triumvirate with Caesar and Crassus. In 54 B.C. he became estranged from Caesar, and in 49 B.C. Caesar engaged Pompey in the first civil war. Defeated at Pharsalus, Pompey fled to Egypt, where he was murdered. Lucan records these wars in his Pharsalia.

The death of Pompei is written in the stars, MLT 197-199. The Monk says that Pompeus was Caesar's father-in-law, MkT 2680. Pompey had married Caesar's daughter, Julia, so that Caesar was Pompey's father-in-law. Suetonius states that Caesar had asked Pompey for his daughter in marriage, but does not add that Pompey refused the match (The Deified Julius XXVII). Medieval writers interpreted the passage to mean that Caesar had married Pompey's daughter. Ranulph Higden calls Pompey socerum or "father-in-law" to Caesar, Polychronicon III.xli. Julius fights in Thessaly against Pompeus and slays his men, MkT 2678-2686. One of Pompeus's men slays him and brings his head to Julius, MkT 2687-2692. Pompeye, conqueror of the orient, is brought low by Fortune, MkT 2693-2394. Lucan stands on a pillar of iron, Mars's metal, because he has written on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompe in Pharsalia, HF III.1497-1502. [Cesar²: Julius]

Pompe, a pronunciation variant, appears once in final rhyming position, HF III.1502; Pompei, derived from Latin Pompeius, occurs once, in a medial position, MLT 199; the expanded form Pompeus, also derived from the name of the clan to which the family belonged, Pompeius, appears three times in medial positions, MkT 2680, 2684, 2688; Pompeye, trisyllabic with final syllabic -e, appears once, in medial position, MkT 2693.