CHAPTER V.
POMPEY.
[Sidenote: Pompey.] While Caesar had thus been rising to so high an elevation, there was another Roman general who had been, for nearly the same period, engaged, in various other quarters of the world, in acquiring, by very similar means, an almost equal renown.

This general was Pompey.

He became, in the end, Caesar's great and formidable rival.

In order that the reader may understand clearly the nature of the great contest which sprung up at last between these heroes, we must now go back and relate some of the particulars of Pompey's individual history down to the time of the completion of Caesar's conquests in Gaul.
[Sidenote: His birth.] [Sidenote: Pompey's personal appearance.] Pompey was a few years older than Caesar, having been born in 106 B.C.
His father was a Roman general, and the young Pompey was brought up in camp.

He was a young man of very handsome figure and countenance, and of very agreeable manners.