Pompēji, ōrum, m., a maritime city in the south of Campania, overwhelmed, together with Herculaneum and Stabiœ, by an eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79, Mel. 2, 4, 9; Liv. 9, 38; Sen. Q. N. 6, 1, 1.—Hence, II. Pompējānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pompeii, Pompeian: regio, Sen. Q. N. 6, 27, 1: Sarnus, Stat. S. 1, 2, 265: vinum, Plin. 14, 6, 8, 70: brassica, id. 19, 8, 41, 140.—2.Subst.a. Pom-pējānum, i, n., a villa of Cicero, near Pompeii, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 1; 7, 4 al.—b. Pompējāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Pompeii, the Pompeians, Cic. Sull. 21, 60.
Pompējus (trisyl.) or Pompēïus (quadrisyl.), i, m., and Pompēja, ae, f., name of a Roman gens. So the famous Cn. Pompejus Magnus, the triumvir, Caes. B. C. 3, 86; Cic. Fam. 3, 4, 2; 13, 41, 1; id. Imp. Pomp. 1 sqq. et saep.—In fem., Pompeja, his sister, Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 2; another,
his daughter
, Hirt. B. Afr. 95, 3; a third,
daughter of Q. Pompeius
,
wife of Julius Cœsar
,
divorced from him
, Suet. Caes. 6; 74.— Hence, A. Pompējus (Pompēïus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pompey, Pompeian: domus, Ov. P. 4, 5, 9: lex, Caes. B. C. 3, 1: porticus,