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▪ I. Pompeian, a.1 and n.1
(pɒmˈpiː(ɪ)ən, now usu. -ˈpeɪən)
Also 9 Pompeiian.
[ad. L. Pompeiān-us, f. Pompēii: see -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Pompeii, an Italian town, buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 a.d., and since 1755 gradually laid bare by excavation. Also, characteristic or imitative of the architecture or painting of Pompeii, esp. frescoes. Hence Pompeian red, a shade of red resembling that found on the walls of houses in Pompeii.
1834Lytton Pompeii i. iii, A tolerable notion of the Pompeian houses. 1869D. G. Rossetti Let. 21 Aug. (1965) II. 716 She built..a Pompeian house for the schoolmaster. 1879A. Holt Fancy Dresses 60 Pompeian lady. White llama skirt, with Grecian border worked in purple. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork i. 20 Pompeian red velvet, for portières. 1882J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. Dec. 21/2 The balustrades of the stairs, Pompeiian red. 1939A. Thirkell Before Lunch iv. 106 The ceiling..painted in what were called Pompeian colours. 1962Listener 18 Oct. 632/2 The story of this horrifying episode was told in ‘Hurricane!’.. The presentation..had a subtly Pompeian quality about it. a1967A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) xxvii. 230 A well-designed preparation for life in this Pompeian society, Pompeian in the sense that all these people were living as it were on the slopes of a volcano. 1972Sci. Amer. Sept. 86/1 The Pompeiian mosaic in the museum in Naples.
B. n.1 A native or inhabitant of Pompeii.
1823C'tess Blessington Jrnl. 12 Aug. in E. Clay Lady Blessington at Naples (1979) 62 The repairs speak little for the taste of the Pompeians. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 380/2 The emperor Nero..adjudged that the Pompeians should be deprived of all theatrical amusements for ten years. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xxxi. 330 Those Pompeiians were very luxurious in their tastes and habits. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 789/2 Pompeians and colonists seem to have adjusted with a minimum of friction. 1976Times 23 Nov. 11/3 The faces of the Pompeians as they recorded themselves are reminiscent of those one can still see in Campania.
▪ II. Pompeian, n.2 and a.2|pɒmˈpeɪən, pɒmˈpiːən|
[ad. L. Pompēiān-us, f. the name Pompēius Pompey.]
A. n. A follower of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 b.c.), Roman consul, or of his son.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Pompey or his party.
1845J. H. Newman in Encycl. Metrop. X. 281/2 Bent on retiring to the Pompeians in Sicily. Ibid. 282/1 The remains of the Pompeian party. 1908W. W. Fowler Social Life at Rome in Age of Cicero iii. 87 Some {pstlg}17,500, all of which, while in deposit at Ephesus, was seized by the Pompeians in the Civil War. 1913D. Hannay Navy & Sea Power ii. 31 When Julius Caesar followed Pompey into Thrace he crossed the Adriatic under the very nose of a superior Pompeian fleet. 1949L. R. Taylor Party Politics in Age of Caesar iii. 68 In the year 61, when Pompey was pouring out money to elect his man to the consulship, Cato charged in the senate that the money was being distributed from the house of the Pompeian consul in office. Ibid. viii. 171 Caesar also contributed by the policy he followed when..he came home from his victory over the Pompeians in Spain. 1974E. S. Gruen Last Generation of Roman Republic ii. 56 Bibulus and Domitius could be counted on by Cato for steady co⁓operation in reducing the influence of Cæsarians and Pompeians in Roman politics. Ibid. 62 It was a standard Pompeian practice to express his own ambitions in terms of the needs and desires of his soldiers. |