I.name of a Roman gens.
I. L. Pomponius, an Atellane poet of Bononia, Gell. 12, 10, 7.—
II. T. Pomponius Atticus, a friend of Cicero, whose life is written by Nepos, Cic. Att. 1, 5; Nep. Att. 1 sqq.—
III. P. Pomponius Secundus, a tragedian, Quint. 8, 3, 31; 10, 1, 98.—
IV. Sex. Pomponius, a lawyer, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 68.—
V. M. Pomponius Matho, a prœtor, Liv. 22, 7; and augur, id. 29, 38.—
VI. Pomponius Mela, a geographer of the first century, author of a treatise De Situ Orbis.—In fem.: Pompō-nĭa .
1. Daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus, and wife of Q. Cicero, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 2.—
2. The mother of Scipio Africanus, Sil. 13, 615.—Hence, Pompō-nĭānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pomponius, Pomponian: “nomina,” Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1: “pira,” Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54: “versus,” of the Atellane poet L. Pomponius, Gell. 10, 24, 5.
