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with crew, and provided that with skilled pilots, and with ample provisionings of
some kind; and they was built so well, both for the speed and
safety that any other ships could be made for overcoming them. Many of them,
you/he/she was also decorated, and he/she decorated in the most sumptuous way, with
gilded sterns, redden awnings, and it silver-climbed on oars. The number of
their helmets were said to be thousand. With this strength of theirs they did
them almost complete masters of the sea. They not only attached
separate ships but whole fleets of merchantmen that sail under they escort;
and they increased the difficulty and expense to bring wheat to Rome
so a lot, intercepting the provisionings, as very materially to improve the
price and to threaten a shortage. They was manufactured masters of many
islands and of various maritime cities along the coast, until them they had
four hundred harbors and city in their possession. In fact, they had
gone toward to form him in a maritime power till now and to regulate,
under a systematic and legitimate government that very respectable
the young men from the other countries started to digitize their service as one
honorable avenues that open to wealth and the fame.
[Sidenote: Plan to destroy the pirates.]
[Sidenote: Your magnitude.]
Under these circumstances, it was obvious that anything decisive it owes
is done. A friend of Pompey introduced a plan to commission
of the one, he didn't say who, but every understood that Pompeys it was
deliberate, to be expeditious ahead against the pirates, with extraordinary
powers, as you/he/she should broadly be enough to train to bring him/it them
dominion to an end. He was to have supreme command on the sea, and
also on the earth for fifty miles from the beach. He was, besides, to
powers is conferred to raise as great a strength, both of ships and men as him
you/he/she should think in demand, and to deduce from the treasury whatever funds they were
necessary to sustain the expenses of the enormous expenses that so enormous an enterprise