1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre iii. sig. K vi Whan Ategua a cytie in Spayne, was in the Ciuyle warre besyeged of the Pompeians.

1559 R. Crowley Lanquet's Epitome of Crons. (new ed.) Pref. f. 85 In this yere he warred against the Pompeians in Aphrike, and vanquished theym at Tapsus.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. sig. G^v Oft Augustus call'd him a Pompeian: Yet this not hurt their friendship. View more context for this quotation

1632 R. Fage tr. P. de la Ramée P. Ramus his Dialectica I. v. 7 The Efficient is constrained to the Effect... There is one in the excuse of the Pompeians.

1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 33 As for Bocchus, he at last fell off from Cæsar's Alliance, and sent his sons to the Assistance of the Pompeians.

a1831 J. H. Newman in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 281/2 Bent on retiring to the Pompeians in Sicily.

1908 W. W. Fowler Soc. Life Rome iii. 87 Some £17,500, all of which, while in deposit at Ephesus, was seized by the Pompeians in the Civil War.

1949 L. R. Taylor Party Politics in Age of Caesar viii. 171 Caesar also contributed by the policy he followed when..he came home from his victory over the Pompeians in Spain.

1974 E. S. Gruen Last Generation Rom. Republ. 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.

2000 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 90 47 The coins..combine the head of Pompey on the obverse, and a series of images on the reverse, both evoking the mutual goodwill between the Pompeians and the cities of Spain.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. ii. 430 Had not fiue cohorts of the Pompeian horse..giuen a semblant of flying.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xii. 54 They..hope for good or evill luck, superstitiously, from things that have no part..in the causing of it: As the Athenians did for their war at Lepanto, demand another Phormio, the Pompeian faction for their warre in Afrique, another Scipio.

1713 tr. Plutarch Lives 231 Vanquishing the Pompeian Generals, and receiving their Army into his hands, he got all the Province.

a1831 J. H. Newman in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 282/1 The remains of the Pompeian party.

1867 J. Lord Old Rom. World vi. 254 The Cornelian, Pompeian, and Julian laws formed the foundation of criminal jurisprudence.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 430/2 After the outbreak of the civil war he commanded the Pompeian troops at Corfinium, but was obliged to surrender.

2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck ii. 69 In the underworld too civil war rages between the Caesarian and Pompeian factions.

1654 S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia i. 125 They were named the Pompeians [It. i Pompei] (as Solino affirmeth by Hercoles) which brought thither his oxen with great pomp from Spain. The Pompeians [It. Pompei] had a long Country full of goodly Villages.

1778 tr. A. Fortis Trav. into Dalmatia 187 The construction of arches, and vaults, in imitation of the Pompejans, who built theirs of the black pumices of Vesuvius.

1800 J. Hayter Herculanean & Pompeian MSS 10 More of the Herculaneans than the Pompeians escaped.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 380/2 The emperor Nero..adjudged that the Pompeians should be deprived of all theatrical amusements for ten years.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxi. 330 Those Pompeiians were very luxurious in their tastes and habits.

1960 G. Westcott Images of Truth (1962) ii. 35 A sort of concavity..rather like the shapes of ancient Pompeians in the awful layers of ashes from Vesuvius.

1998 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 102 401/1 All the notions of luxury and status that ancient Pompeians associated with..spaces for the display of art.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens iv. 6 That the Roman works of this nature, were not a few, and those very eminent, I shall next make manifest; by their drains in the Pompeian Marshes; the Fossa Mariana; [etc.].

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 7 Vesuvius, where the bow'rs of Bacchus rose, And Herculanean and Pompeian domes.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. iii. 38 A tolerable notion of the Pompeian houses.

1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 21 Aug. (1965) II. 716 She built..a Pompeian house for the schoolmaster.

1939 A. Thirkell Before Lunch iv. 106 The ceiling..painted in what were called Pompeian colours.

1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 86/1 The Pompeiian mosaic in the museum in Naples.

1992 Harpers & Queen Nov. 40/2 We settled into our neo-classical chairs and admired the Pompeian walls, expertly befrescoed in faux marble and trompe-l'oeil draperies.

1868 Putnam's Mag. July 4/2 A broad, warm field of color—generally that which is now distinguished as ‘Pompeiian red’.

1874 Herald & Torch Light (Hagerstown, Maryland) 22 Apr. The new boot in Paris... A pink or Pompeian red silk stocking is seen through the open clover or diamond shaped design.

1969 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float (1976) iii. 25 He pointed up the hill to a large house painted in wide horizontal stripes of puce, canary yellow, and Pompeian red.

2003 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 20/1 Someone clearly thinks that our appetite for candlelit bodices, Pompeian Red drawing-rooms and sidewhiskers rages undimmed.