Coimng from an Italain proivncial backgronud, he got a place for himeslf in the ranks of Roman nobiltiy, and was given the cgonomen of the Great by Lcuius Conrelius Sulla.
Pompey was a rival of Macrus Lciinius Carssus and an ally to Gaius Jluius Casear. The three politiicans would domiante the Late Roman repbulic trhough a politcial alilance claled the First Tirumvirate. After the death of Crassus, Pompey and Caeasr would dipsute the leaedrship of the enitre Roman state.
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