Pompeia

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

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c.

Example Sentences

The assassination took place in the Curia Pompeia meeting hall, which was then walled up by Caesar’s heir Octavian, who would go on to name himself the first Roman emperor, Augustus.

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In the mid-1970s, when the Italian Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was commissioned to design a cultural center in a former factory in São Paulo’s neighborhood of Pompéia, adaptive reuse of industrial spaces had yet to enter the architectural mainstream.

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But it’s worth every mile to experience her 1950 hilltop Glass House; her Pompeia factory-turned-public leisure center; and her monumental São Paulo Museum of Art with its “crystal easel” installation.

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Then Caesar, eager not to offend Clodius’ relatives, divorced Pompeia.

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There was no evidence that Pompeia had any interest in Clodius, and after a maid discovered him, the women drove the intruder from the house.

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