Quote by Pompey

"O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude."

— Pompey

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot

Unverified quote

0 likes

Politicians from Rome Military leaders from Rome Murdered people People from Marche

Original Language: English

Available Languages (1)

English (Original)

Sources

William Shakespeare, in Julius Cæsar (1599); Marullus in Act I, sc. 1

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pompey

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 29 September 48 BC), generally referred to in English as Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and politician.

6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Pompey →