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In Act I Scene I of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, a group of commoners are celebrating the victory of Caesar over Pompey's sons in the Battle of Munda. Pompey had been a great Roman general and Caesar's associate, but nevertheless Caesar had started a bloody civil war with him in 49 BC which lasted four years and was not ended until the Battle of Munda. The tribunes Flavius and Marullus chide the commoners for celebrating the defeat of a Roman, and a great Roman at that. "Knew you not Pompey?"

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