Pompeius
2. A. Pompeius, is said to have been a fluteplayer, a report probably invented by the aristocracy for the purpose of degrading his son, a novas homo (Plut. Reg. et Imperat. Apopitl. p. 200).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.