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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Pompey.
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Latin:; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey ( ) or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the final decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved significant military and political success.