Lewis & Short

pompa, ae, f., = πομπή, a solemn procession, a public procession of any kind (at public festivals, games, triumphs, marriages, funerals, etc.).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. In gen.: in pompā cum magna vis auri argentique ferretur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: per Dionysia pompam ducere, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 92: sollemnes ordine pompas Exequi, Verg. A. 5, 53: sollemnes ducere pompas Ad delubra juvat, id. G. 3, 22: Pontico triumpho inter pompae fercula trium verborum protulit titulum: veni, vidi, vici, Suet. Caes. 37; so, pompa Indica, i. e. the triumphal procession of Bacchus, Mart. 8, 78, 2: cadaver Clodii spoliatum exsequiis, pompā, Cic. Mil. 13, 39; so of a funeral procession, Nep. Att. 22, 4; cf.: pompam funeris ire, to attend a funeral, Ov. F. 6, 663: pompam parare triumphis, id. P. 3, 4, 95: exornaturus victoris superbi pompam, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25, 4: pomparum ferculis similes esse (referring to the slowness of such processions), Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.
    2. B. In partic., the processions at the Circensian games, in which images of the gods were carried, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; Tert. Spect. 7; Suet. Caes. 76; id. Tit. 2; id. Aug. 16; id. Calig. 15; id. Claud. 11; Ov. F. 4, 391; id. Am. 3, 2, 43 sq.; id. A. A. 1, 147; Inscr. Grut. 622, 9; so of Cæsar, whose image was carried among them: tu hunc de pompā, Quirini contubernalem, laetaturum putas? Cic. Att. 13, 28, 3.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. A train, suite, retinue, row, array of persons or things (class.), Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 1; Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 17: molesta haec pompa lictorum meorum, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 2: postremo tota petitio cura ut pompae plena sit, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 13, 52: captivorum, Juv. 10, 281.
      Of things: pecuniae pompa, Sen. Ep. 110, 15: ventri portatur pompa, i. e. rich repast, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12: munera certā discurrunt pompā, Tib. 3, 1, 3: sarcinarum, Mart. 12, 32, 25: strepitus pompae armorum, Vulg. Jer. 47, 3.
    2. B. Parade, display, ostentation, pomp (class.; syn. apparatus): rhetorum pompa, Cic. Tusc. 4, 21, 48: in dicendo adhibere quandam speciem atque pompam, id. de Or. 2, 72, 294: detraxit muneri suo pompam, Sen. Ben. 2, 13, 2: ad pompam vel ostentationem aliquid accipere, Dig. 13, 6, 3 fin.: genus orationis pompae quam pugnae aptius, Cic. Or. 13, 42; so, eorum partim in pompā, partim in acie illustres esse voluerunt, id. de Or. 2, 22, 94.