Capitolo 21
[Sidenote: Thieves and pirates.]
But with all of their bravery and the ability as naval fighters and them
the Cilicians, missed a thing that is a lot of
essential in every nation to a military and honorable fame. They had anybody
poets or historical of them really, so that the history of their actions had
to be said to posterity from their enemies. If theirs had been able to
you narrate their his/her own enterprises, they would have shown up, perhaps, on the
page of history as a small but brave and efficient maritime power,
pursuing for many years a glorious career of conquest, and acquiring
the imperishable renown from their enterprise and the success. As it was, the
Romans, their enemies described their actions and they gave them for them
designation. They called them to Them thieves and pirates; and thievish and
pirates that they has to remain forever.
[Sidenote: the Depredations of the Cilicians.]
And it is, in fact, very probable truth that the commanders of Cilician
doesn't undertake their conquests and commits their depredations on the rights
and the ownership of others in rather so systematic and methodic a
way as of the other states that conquer you/he/she has done. They probably grabbed
private ownership an a little more simply of it is usual; although
all the belligerent nations, also in these centuries Christians of the world the touch
to the liberty to grab and to forfeit private ownership when they find him/it to them
sea craft, while, from a strange discordance, they respect him/it to them on
the earth. The pirates of Cilician were considered in struggle with everybody
humanity, and, whatever commodity they found passing from I bring for veering
along the beaches of the Mediterranean, they considered legal loot.
They intercepted the corn that was going from Sicily to Rome, and
them own barns filled with him. They found rich commodity from the
ships in Alexandria that it sometimes brought, gold and gems, and
expensive cloths from the east; often, and they got the great sums of
money grabbing men of distinction and wealth that were continually