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A member of the plebeian Carbos of the gens Papiria , and nephew of Gaius Papirius Carbo (consul of 120), he was a strong supporter of the Marian party, and took part in the blockade of Rome ( 87 BC). In 85 BC he was chosen by Cinna as his colleague in the consulship, and extensive preparations were made for carrying on war in Greece against Sulla, who had announced his intention of returning to Italy. Cinna and Carbo declared themselves consuls for the following year, and large bodies of troops were transported across the Adriatic Sea; but when Cinna was murdered by his own soldiers, who refused to engage in civil war, Carbo was obliged to bring them back.

In 82 BC Carbo, then consul for the third time with the younger Marius, fought an indecisive engagement with Sulla near Clusium , but was defeated with great loss in an attack on the camp of Sullas general, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius near Faventia . Although he still had a large army and the Samnites remained faithful to him, Carbo was so disheartened by his failure to relieve Praeneste, where the younger Marius had taken refuge, that he decided to leave Italy. He first fled to AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20. 3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for ar, thence to the island of Cossyra ( PantelleriaPantelleria or Pantalaria ancient Cossyra is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, 100 km (62 mi) southwest of the south-western extremity of Sicily, and 44 m. of the African coast, belonging to the Sicilian province of Trapani. 1901), 8683. It is entirely), where he was arrested, taken in chains before PompeyThis article refers to the Roman General. However, Pompey is also the nickname of the city of Portsmouth in Hampshire, England, and also of its principal football club, Portsmouth F. Pompey is not to be confused with the Roman city of Pompeii. Gnaeus Pomp at Lilybaeum and put to death.

References

• AppianAppian (Gr. Alpha;ππιανο&sigmaf , of Alexandria, Roman historian, lived during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in native place, he repaired to Rome, where he, Bell. Civ. i. 67-98
• LivyTitus Livius (around 59 BC AD 17), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome from its supposed founding in 753 BC. Life and Works The book's title, Ab Urbe Condita ("From the Founding of the City"), makes Livy's ambition clear, but not, Epit. 79, 84, 88, 89
• Plutarch, Pompey, 5, 6, 10, and Sulla, 28
• Cicero, ad Fani. ix. 21
• Eutropius , v. 8, 9
• Orosius, v. 20
• Valerius Maximus, v. 3. 5, ix

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica