Sextus Pompeius

75 BC - 35 BC

Relationship	People
Associated	Plutarch

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, (75 BC-35 BC) was a Roman general from the late Republic (1st century BC). He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate.
    Sextus Pompeius was the youngest son of Pompey the Great, one of Rome’s best generals, originally a non-conservative politician who later drifted to the more traditional faction when Julius Caesar became a threat. After the murder of his father for alleged treachery, Sextus joined the resistance against Caesar in the African provinces.
    Defeats by Caesars’ armies caused him to flee to Sicily in 45 BC, which would become his base – after the murder of Caesar by Cassius and Brutus – in his wars against the Second Triumvirate (formed by Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus, with the intention of avenging Caesar and subduing all opposition). They lasted until his defeat in the naval battles of Messina in 37 and 36 BC.
    After fleeing Sicily for Asia Minor, Sextus Pompeius was caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial by order of Antony’s minion Marcus Titius.