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passing before and back between Italy and Greece, and holding them for a
ransom. They was settled particularly to find so possession in of
Roman and official Generals of state that was going out to take the
armies' command, or with that you/he/she was returning from their provinces the
wealth that they had accumulated there.
[Sidenote: the Consignments it sent against them.]
[Sidenote: the Boldness and the courage of the Cilicians.]
A lot of consignments had been all right out and many naval commanders were
commissioned to sup you press and you subjugate these enemies common of humanity, as
the Romans called them. To a duration, while a separate general,
Called Antonius, was in search of them to the head of a fleet, a party
of the pirates a descent did on the Italian coast, south in Rome to
Nicenum, where the mansion of ancient patrimonial of this was a lot of Antonius
situated, and it brought away many members of his/her family as captives, and
then he/she forced him/it to ransom a very great sum of money paying them. The
pirates grew more daring and more daring in proportion to their success. Them
finally it almost stopped every relationships between Italy and Greece, neither
the dealers that dare to show their commodity, neither the passengers
their people to such dangers. They drew near then more neighbors and more next to
Rome, and finally indeed digitò the Tiber and surprises and it brought
by a Roman fleet that was anchored there. Same Caesar fell in the
these pirates' hands to of the duration during the period of his/her vagabondages.
[Sidenote: Yours capture Caesar.]
The pirates captured the ship in which he was sailing next to Pharmacusa a,
small island in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. He was not to
this time in the needy condition in which he was found on
Rome that goes away, but you/he/she was traveling with companions appropriated to his/her line,
and in such style and way as it immediately did him/it evident to the pirates
what he was a man of distinction. They contained accordingly him to Them for ransom,
and, of bad duration, until him you/he/she could take measures to raise the