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@article{Collins1953DeclineAF,
  title={Decline and Fall of Pompey the Great},
  author={Huntly Collins},
  journal={Greece and Rome},
  year={1953},
  volume={22},
  pages={98 - 106},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161450990}
}

Although the last phase of Republican Rome is so familiar to us, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus remains a figure rather than a man. His was the statue beneath which the murdered Caesar fell, and he is still for most of us the figure in the background: Shakespeare passed him by. His vast fame has left the man himself remote. It was his tragedy that he could not read the writing on the wall. It was partly clouded for him, as all things gradually became clouded, by the deepening shadow of his own… 

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