

In 90 BC, while marching his legions south through Picentum, he was suddenly attacked by a large force of Picentes, Vestini and Marsi. First he recruited three or four legions in his native Picenum then he marched them south against the rebels. He commanded his forces against the Italian rebels in the northern part of Italy. His elder brother was Sextus Pompeius and his sister was Pompeia.ĭespite Strabo's provincial roots, he and his family were Roman citizens and therefore took up Rome's cause during the Civil War the Republic had to fight with its Italian Allies. Strabo's paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was Sextus Pompeius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus. Lucilia's family originated from Suessa Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca) and she was a sister of satiric poet Gaius Lucilius. He lived in the Roman Republic and was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum (in the south and the north of the modern regions of Marche and Abruzzo respectively) in Central Italy, on the Adriatic Coast. He is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo, to distinguish him from his son, the famous Pompey the Great, or from Strabo the geographer. Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (135 – 87 BC) was a Roman general and politician, who served as consul in 89 BC. Rome's Social War (Bellum Sociale) and the Battle of Asculum Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius Rufus Lucius Julius Caesar and Publius Rutilius Lupus For other Romans named Gnaeus Pompeius, see Gnaeus Pompeius.
