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pompa , ae, f., = πομπή,
I.a solemn procession, a public procession of any kind (at public festivals, games, triumphs, marriages, funerals, etc.).
I. Lit.
B. In partic., the processions at the Circensian games, in which images of the gods were carried, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; Tert. Spect. 7; Suet. Caes. 76; id. Tit. 2; id. Aug. 16; id. Calig. 15; id. Claud. 11; Ov. F. 4, 391; id. Am. 3, 2, 43 sq.; id. A. A. 1, 147; Inscr. Grut. 622, 9; “so of Cæsar, whose image was carried among them: tu hunc de pompā, Quirini contubernalem, laetaturum putas?Cic. Att. 13, 28, 3.—
II. Transf.
A. A train, suite, retinue, row, array of persons or things (class.), Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 1; Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 17: “molesta haec pompa lictorum meorum,Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 2: “postremo tota petitio cura ut pompae plena sit,Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 13, 52: “captivorum,Juv. 10, 281.—Of things: “pecuniae pompa,Sen. Ep. 110, 15: ventri portatur pompa, i. e. rich repast, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12: “munera certā discurrunt pompā,Tib. 3, 1, 3: “sarcinarum,Mart. 12, 32, 25: “strepitus pompae armorum,Vulg. Jer. 47, 3.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (28):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 2.16.2
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 13.28.3
    • null, 13.52
    • Cicero, For Milo, 13.39
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 1.1
    • Plautus, Curculio, 1.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.53
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.22
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 47.3
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 11
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 76
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.22
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.72
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 16
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 15
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 37
    • Suetonius, Divus Titus, 2
    • Cornelius Nepos, Atticus, 22.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 30, 38
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 2.13.2
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 4.21
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.32
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.36
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 110.15
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 3.4
    • Cicero, Orator, 13.42
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
    • Ovid, Fasti, 6
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