Pompeia

[ pom-pee-uh, -pey-uh ]

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c. Compare Calpurnia, Cornelia ( def 2 ).

Example Sentences

Her name was Pompeia, He divorced Pompeia about this time, under very extraordinary circumstances.

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Pompeia Paulina, a young and very noble Roman lady, had married Seneca in his extreme old age.

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Finding the door open, he was safely let in by a female slave who was in the secret, and who forthwith ran off to tell Pompeia.

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Csar's second wife was Pompeia, the granddaughter of Sylla, whose family Aurelia had but little cause to love.

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In the Via Pompeia is an early Renaissance house with fine decorations in marble and terra-cotta.

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