Murder of Pompey
48 BCE · Event
Fleeing to Egypt after Pharsalus, Pompey is stabbed to death in a small boat on the shore at Pelusium by courtiers of the boy king Ptolemy XIII; his head is offered to Caesar.
On these timelines: Roman History, Fall of the Roman Republic, Master, Ancient Egypt
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