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 696 POMPEY sures toward the end of the last century, was again filled up with earth. Several houses were evidently entered by their owners imme- diately after the subsidence of the first erup- tion, in search of valuables. The most impor- tant paintings and objects of art discovered by excavation have been deposited in the museo Borbonico. Among them may be mentioned a beautiful painting of the landing of Aphro- dite, and numerous representations of Narcis- sus, who seems to have been a favorite with the Pompeiians. The painting of Laocoon found Street of the Tombs. in 1875 is one of the most important speci- mens of ancient art brought to light. Until recently the excavations proceeded slowly, the annual amount appropriated by the late Bour- bon government having barely sufficed for re- pairs and incidental expenses; but since 1861 the government has liberally assisted the work, though the great care taken in unearthing the monuments has prevented any rapid progress. The space laid bare measured on June 30, 1872, 664,149 sq. ft., which is about one third of the whole area occupied by the city. Fiorelli cal- culates that, making the excavations on an av- erage 25 ft. deep and employing 81 laborers daily, the whole city will be unearthed in 1947. Detailed accounts and illustrations of the results of the explorations in Pompeii will be found in Mazois's work, continued by Gau, Les mines de Pompei (4 vols. fol., Paris, 1812-'38) ; in Sir W. Gell's " Pompeiana " (4 vols. 8vo, London, 1824-'30 ; new ed. edited by John P. Gandy, London, 1875) ; Breton's Pompeia (8vo, Paris, 1855) ; Dyer's " Pompeii, its History, Buildings, and Antiquities " (London, 1867) ; Fiorelli's Relazione degli scam di Pompej dal 186.1 al 1872 (Turin, 1873); Ourti's Pompej e le sue mine (3 vols., Milan and Naples, 1874) ; and Over- beck's Pompeji in seinen Gebauden, Alterthu- mern und Kunstwerken (3d ed., Leipsic, 1875). POMPEY. I. Cneins Pompeius Magnus, a Roman general, born Sept. 29, 106 B. 0., assassinated in Egypt, Sept. 28, 48. He was the son of Cneius Pompeius Strabo, under whom he first served in the social or Marsic war. During the strug- e between Marius and Sulla he sided with e latter, and in 87 aided in the defence of Eome against Cinna and Sertorius, the parti- sans of Marius. When Sulla, after finishing the Mithridatic war, took up his march for Italy, Pompey raised on his own responsibility three legions, with which he defeated the Marian general M. Brutus and effected a junction with Sulla. During the war which prostrated the Marian party in Italy he gained great distinc- tion as one of Sulla's legates. He next reduced Sicily, and in 81, crossing over to Africa, he overran Numidia, where the Marian party still held out, and crushed them in a battle, in which their general On. Domitius Ahenobar- bus and 17,000 Numidians were slain. On returning to Rome he was met by the popu- lace with acclamations, and the dictator be- stowed upon him the surname of Magnus. Not content with this distinction, he claimed a triumph, a thing unheard of for a man of equestrian rank who had filled no office of state. To avoid contention, Sulla finally yield- ed, and the young general entered Rome in triumph in September, 81. Two years later Pompey again thwarted the wishes of Sulla by securing the election of M. ^Emilius Lepi- dus to the consulship ; but, true to the aristo- cratic party to which he had attached him- self, he refused to aid the consul in repealing