Pompey Lenaeus

Pompey Lenaeus († after 35 BC) was a freedman of Pompey who ran a school in Rome . Lenaeus translated a work by King Mithridates of Pontus (132–63 BC) on poisons into Latin for his former master . After Pompey's death, he turned against the historian Sallust (86-35 BC), who, in his opinion, portrayed Pompey as a shameless hypocrite. Nothing is known about his further life.

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Pliny , naturalis historia 25.3 .
Suetonius , de grammaticis 2.2 ; 15 .

literature

Edward Courtney: Lenaeus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 44 f.
John Hazel: Who's Who in the Roman World . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-29162-3 , pp. 163 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lenaeus, Pompey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pompey's freedman, head of a school, translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 35 BC Chr.