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Gnaeus Pompeius (Rufus)
(died AD 14) was
suffect consul
in 31 BC, during the transitional period when
Octavian
, the future Augustus, was consolidating his powers as
princeps
.
A member of the
plebeian
gens Pompeia
, he may have been one of the Pompeii Rufi, the son of
Quintus Pompeius Rufus
, and therefore the great-grandson of the
dictator
Sulla
.
[1]
A
senator
, Gnaeus Pompeius was appointed
suffect consul
to replace
Marcus Titius
, and he held the office from October 1 through to December 31, 31 BC.
[2]
Gnaeus Pompeius was also one of the
Quindecimviri sacris faciundis
, a priestly college, to which he belonged until his death in AD 14.
[3]
Sources
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References
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- ^
Broughton III, pg. 160; Syme, pg. 279
- ^
Broughton II, pg. 420
- ^
Rogers, Robert Samuel,
Studies in the reign of Tiberius: some imperial virtues of Tiberius and Drusus Julius Caesar
(1943), pg. 102
Political offices
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Preceded by
as suffect
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Roman consul
31 BC (suffect)
with
Augustus
III
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Succeeded by
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