| 1 | In addition to Pompey, the Optimates faction included most of the Roman Senate. | |
| 2 | Pompey was the general who cleaned the pirates out of the Mediterranean in the first century BCE. | |
| 3 | Senators and public officers left everything behind and hurried away to seek safety with Pompey. | |
| 4 | We don' t know if Pliny or Pompey or some later person was skeptical of this as effective protection against poison. | |
| 5 | "If I but stamp on the ground in Italy, " said Pompey, "an army will appear." |
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