Pomponia

Pompōnĭus, i, m., and Pompōnĭa, ae, f., name of a Roman gens.

I.

L. Pomponius, an Atellane poet of Bononia, Gell. 12, 10, 7.—

II.

T. Pomponius Atticus, a friend of Cicero, whose life is written by Nepos, Cic. Att. 1, 5; Nep. Att. 1 sqq.—

III.

P. Pomponius Secundus, a tragedian, Quint. 8, 3, 31; 10, 1, 98.—

IV.

Sex. Pomponius, a lawyer, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 68.—

V.

M. Pomponius Matho, a prœtor, Liv. 22, 7; and augur, id. 29, 38.—

VI.

Pomponius Mela, a geographer of the first century, author of a treatise De Situ Orbis.—In fem.: Pompō-nĭa.

1.

Daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus, and wife of Q. Cicero, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 2.—

2.

The mother of Scipio Africanus, Sil. 13, 615.—Hence, Pompō-nĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pomponius, Pomponian:

nomina,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1:

pira,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54:

versus,

of the Atellane poet L. Pomponius, Gell. 10, 24, 5.