When you end up calling yourself the Great,
you’ve got a lot to live up to.
Gnaeus Pompeius had pretty big expectations
when he joined the triumvirate with Marcus Crassus and Gaius Iulius Caesar.
Things didn’t work out all that well for him.

He lost some weight when he got beheaded
and he wasn’t quite so great no more.
He had a lot of good years before that, though:
decades of victories,
hoards of fortune,
couple of wives
(sequential though, no hanky panky for the guy),
he did pretty all right for himself.

You couldn’t exactly say it ended up great for him, though.
It was a less than stellar ending for Pompey.
But then, how many endings would you say are great?