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Lucius Septimius was a Roman soldier and mercenary who is principally remembered as one of the assassins of the triumvir Pompey the Great. At the time of the assassination in 48 BC, Septimius was serving the Ptolemies of Egypt as a mercenary. He was dispatched with orders to murder Pompey by Ptolemy XIII's advisors who wanted to win the favour ...
When he went ashore to greet an official delegation, Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius, a Roman officer and former colleague serving in the Egyptian army. His body was cremated by two servants, while the head was kept as evidence. [135]
He was called by Julius Caesar a man of extraordinary daring, and it was he and Lucius Septimius who killed Pompey at the suggestion of the eunuch Pothinus and Theodotus of Chios. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Achillas subsequently joined Pothinus in resisting Caesar, and having had the command of the whole army entrusted to him by Pothinus, he marched ...
The assassination of Pompey was executed by Lucius Septimius at the behest of Achillas. Only two days later, Caesar arrived with a fleet in Alexandria . According to the Roman historian Livy and the Greek biographer Plutarch , it was Theodotus who delivered the signet ring and the head of Pompey to Caesar.
The conspirators, who were attempting to install Tiye's son Pentawer on the throne, failed, and (according to the Judicial Papyrus of Turin) were tried and sentenced to death by the government of Ramesses's intended successor Ramesses IV. 48 BC: Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician Achillas, Lucius Septimius Salvius, and Julius Caesar ...
The assassination of Pompey. "I am not mistaken, surely, in believing you to have been formerly my fellow-soldier." [15]: 118 — Pompey, Roman general and statesman (28 September 48 BCE), to Lucius Septimius, one of his assassins "The imperator is doing well." [29] ("Imperator se bene habet")
The playwrights chose to concentrate much of their attention on the figure of Lucius Septimius, the Roman officer who betrayed, murdered, and decapitated Pompey the Great when Pompey landed in Egypt after his Pharsalia defeat (events depicted in Act II). Septimius is the "false one" of the title, and his prominence comes close to turning the ...
Pompey's council of war decided to flee to Egypt, [2] which had in the previous year supplied him with military aid. [ 3 ] Upon his arrival in Egypt , he was murdered by Achillas and Lucius Septimius , former soldiers in his army, under the orders of the eunuch Pothinus and Theodotus of Chios , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] advisors of the King Ptolemy who ...