什麼是龐培

Pompey the Great

拉丁語全名Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

羅馬共和國的政治家和將領之一。其早期的軍事生涯極爲輝煌。在同盟者戰爭戰爭中，曾協助蘇拉有效地對馬略進行打擊，奪回西班牙（西元前76～西元前71年），粉碎了最後一支斯巴達克思軍，消滅地中海地區東部的海盜（西元前67年起），戰勝了米特拉達梯六世（西元前63年），鞏固和擴大了東部省份和邊境領地。西元前61年與凱撒和克拉蘇形成三頭政治。克拉蘇死後（西元前53年），龐培與凱撒發生衝突。西元前52年羅馬處於無政府狀態，他被任命爲唯一的執政官。西元前49年凱撒違背元老院的旨意，發動內戰，龐培率其海軍向東逃離，凱撒爲追擊龐培而渡過魯比孔河。龐培在法薩盧斯戰役（西元前48年）中被擊敗後，龐培和他的艦隊一起逃到埃及，但沒想到埃及人會站在凱撒一邊，當他走下船，準備踏上埃及國土時，便被殺害。

前106～西元前48年

Pompey the Great

Statesman and general of the Roman republic. His early military career was illustrious. He fought effectively for Sulla against Marius in the Social War, reconquered Spain (76-71), destroyed the last of Spartacus' army (71), destroyed the pirates of the eastern Mediterranean (from 67), defeated Mithradates (63), and consolidated and extended the eastern provinces and frontier kingdoms. In 61 he formed the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus. After Crassus' death (53), Pompey and Caesar fell out. By 52, with Rome in a state of anarchy, he was named sole consul. In 49 Caesar defied the Senate and provoked the civil war by crossing the Rubicon in pursuit of Pompey, who fled east with his navy. Defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus (48), Pompey fled with his fleet to Egypt, not realizing the Egyptians would take Caesar's side, and was killed as he prepared to step on land from the boat they had sent to bring him ashore.