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[edit] Cognomina

Alright, can someone please cite where Sextus Pompeius' cognomina came from? I, for one, have never heard him referred to as Magnus Pius.

the picture on the coin shows Magnus Pius

[edit] Shakespeare?

We should at least mention Shakespeare's treatment of him (Antony and Cleopatra) and the story of how he spared the Triumvirate when he could have killed them and taken the throne. Even if it's not historically accurate, definitely culturally significant (and I think Plutarch or somebody has the same story). Here's the relevant passage: (Actt

  Men. Wilt thou be Lord of all the world?
 Pom. What saist thou?
 Men. Wilt thou be Lord of the whole world?

That's twice

  Pom. How should that be?
 Men. But entertaine it, and though thou thinke me

poore, I am the man will giue thee all the world

  Pom. Hast thou drunke well

  Men. No Pompey, I haue kept me from the cup,

Thou art if thou dar'st be, the earthly Ioue: What ere the Ocean pales, or skie inclippes, Is thine, if thou wilt ha't

  Pom. Shew me which way?
 Men. These three World-sharers, these Competitors

Are in thy vessell. Let me cut the Cable, And when we are put off, fall to their throates: All there is thine

  Pom. Ah, this thou shouldst haue done,

And not haue spoke on't. In me 'tis villanie, In thee, 't had bin good seruice