Pompey
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 44 instances of Pompey in 26 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Pompey in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 1 · ¶ 8.
By Various Ways We Arrive at the Same End hardly form a definitive and sweeping opinion of it. Here we have Pompey who pardoned everyone in the city of the Mamertines, though it had …
- Book 1 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 8.
On Fear Is there a harsher and more appropriate feeling for what Pompey’s allies felt aboard his ship when they witnessed that horrible massacre?∗ Some …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death is what five or six more months of life cost the great Pompey.∗ And in our fathers’ time, Ludovico Sforza, the tenth duke of Milan …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 8.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death their whole life a good or bad reputation when they died. Scipio, Pompey’s father-in-law, died well and so redressed the poor opinion all had of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 2.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise a young man, of an illustrious family, and nephew to the great Pompey, and this made him break out into several passionate complainings. “What then,” …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 15.
On Cato the Younger second. And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 3.
How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing When Pompey’s head was presented to Caesar, the histories tell us that he turned …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 19.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them ultimate evil? Those who denied it in theory admitted it in practice! Pompey once paid a visit to Posidonius who was terribly afflicted by a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 44 · ¶ 4.
On Sleep Metellus, who, attempting to publish a decree for the calling in of Pompey with his army into the city at the time of Catiline’s conspiracy, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 44 · ¶ 4.
On Sleep favor of the people and of Caesar — at that time of Pompey’s faction — was to appear accompanied with a rabble of slaves and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 46 · ¶ 19.
On Names springs are there that fix upon my deceased groom, or the other Pompey, who had his head cut off in Egypt, this glorious renown, and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 7.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment where Caesar had the worst, near the city of Oricum, he reproached Pompey’s soldiers that he had been lost had their general known how to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 14.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment Among other oversights Pompey is charged withal at the battle of Pharsalia, he is condemned for …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 5.
On War Horses ’Tis said, both of Caesar and Pompey, that among their other excellent qualities they were both very good horsemen, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 4.
On the Vanity of Words fortunes to any great degree of eminence without the assistance of eloquence. Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, Lucullus, Lentulus, Metellus, thence took their chiefest spring, to mount …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 51.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children Caesar’s captains in the wars of Gaul; and who, afterward, siding with Pompey the great, so valiantly maintained his cause, till he was by Caesar …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 156.
Apology for Raymond Sebond of the bees, and all our ensigns and legions, with the great Pompey himself at the head of them, are routed and crushed to pieces; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 15 · ¶ 8.
Difficulty Increases Our Desire has the skin rippled. The courtesan Flora said she never lay with Pompey but that she made him wear the prints of her teeth. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 3.
On Couriers that Lucius Vibullius Rufus, being in great haste to carry intelligence to Pompey, rode night and day, still taking fresh horses for the greater diligence …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 23.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty Caesar, who commanded his men to shoot chiefly at the face of Pompey’s soldiers in the battle of Pharsalia, a thousand other commanders have also …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 3.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch the Roman affairs, that he dares to maintain Julius Caesar’s cause against Pompey, and that of Antony against Cicero. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 15.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero, Cato and Aristides, Sylla and Lysander, Marcellus and Pelopidas, Pompey and Agesilaus, holding that he has favored the Greeks in giving them …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 16.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch more likely disparity, to the Roman’s advantage. As to Marcellus, Sylla, and Pompey, I very well discern that their exploits of war are greater and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 17.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch the victories, feats of arms, the force of the armies conducted by Pompey, and his triumphs, with those of Agesilaus? “I do not believe,” says …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina the wife of Crassus, and even to Mutia, wife to the great Pompey: which was the reason, the Roman historians say, that she was repudiated …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina than he knew; and the Curios, both father and son, afterwards reproached Pompey, when he married Caesar’s daughter, that he had made himself son-in-law to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 10.
The Story of Spurina arms against him; he has three or four times taken some of Pompey’s captains prisoners, and as often set them at liberty. Pompey declared all …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 10.
The Story of Spurina some of Pompey’s captains prisoners, and as often set them at liberty. Pompey declared all those to be enemies who did not follow him to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 9.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War the ninth legion having mutinied near Placentia, he ignominiously cashiered them, though Pompey was then yet on foot, and received them not again to grace …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 12.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War which, having been everywhere victorious in Gaul, he left it, and, following Pompey to Brundusium, in eighteen days’time he subdued all Italy; returned from Brundusium …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 12.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War Macedonia, beat the Roman army at Pharsalia, passed thence in pursuit of Pompey into Egypt, which he also subdued; from Egypt he went into Syria …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 12.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War he defeated Scipio and Juba; again returned through Italy, where he defeated Pompey’s sons, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 22.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War of his forces, the ports on the other side being seized by Pompey, and the whole sea being in his possession. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 36.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War comfort than reprove them. One single cohort of his withstood four of Pompey’s legions above four hours together, till they were almost all killed with …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 37.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War who were besieged in Salona, a city that stood for Caesar against Pompey, is not, for the rarity of an accident that there happened, to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 37.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War their ships, and Octavius himself was fain to fly to Dyrrachium, where Pompey lay. I do not at present remember that I have met with …
- Book 3 · Chapter 1 · ¶ 46.
On the Useful and the Honorable do! In an encounter of the civil war against Cinna, one of Pompey’s soldiers having unawares killed his brother, who was of the contrary party, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 115.
On Some Verses of Virgil Lucullus, Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Cato, and other brave men were cuckolds, and knew it, without …
- Book 3 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 72.
On the Art of Discussion And yet I am angry at him for judging more severely of Pompey than consists with the opinion of those worthy men who lived in …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 208.
On Vanity hazards of war may lend me a helping hand. Betwixt Caesar and Pompey, I should frankly have declared myself; but, as among the three robbers …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 220.
On Vanity I have had a hundred quarrels in defending Pompey and for the cause of Brutus; this acquaintance yet continues betwixt us; …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 36.
On Conserving One’s Will Heaven never saw a greater animosity than that betwixt Caesar and Pompey, nor ever shall; and yet I observe, methinks, in those brave souls, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 49.
On Conserving One’s Will the greatest commotion that this machine of the world ever underwent? for Pompey and Caesar were but the offsets and continuation of the two others: …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 162.
On Experience The pretty inscription wherewith the Athenians honored the entry of Pompey into their city, is conformable to my sense: …