Capitolo 69
[Sidenote: Your way of operation.]
Pompey raised and equipped an enormous number of helmets, and it divided them
in separate fleets, putting every one bottom the command of a
lieutenant. Him divided then the Mediterranean Sea in thirteen
districts, and it named a lieutenant and his/her fleet for every one of them
as a watch. After having sent before these separations to them respective
stations, he put out of the city him to take position of the
operations that he was to conduct in person. The people followed him/it,
as he went to the place where to embark was, in the great crowds him and
with long and strong acclamations.
[Sidenote: Pompey drives the pirates in front of him.]
[Sidenote: the exultation in Rome.]
Starting to the Narrow one of Gibraltar, Pompey it went to cruise with a powerful person
agile toward the east, driving the pirates in front of him, the lieutenants,
who were situated along the coast being on the alarm for impedirloro
to find some places of retreat or shelter. Some of the ships of the pirates
you/he/she was surrounded and taken. Others ran away, and you/he/she were followed by Pompey
ships until them had passed over the coasts of Sicily and the seas
among the Italian beaches and Africans. Now The communication was open
again to the wheat-increasing south of countries in Rome and the great provisionings
immediately of food was versed in the city. The whole population was,
clearly, full with exultation and it rejoyces to receiving so welcome
tests that Pompey was bringing defeasible with success their job they had
assigns him.
[Sidenote: The pirates assemble him.]
The Italian peninsula and the island of Sicily that it is in fact, a
projection from the northern beaches of the Mediterranean, with a salient
almost opposite angle of the coast to them on the African side, forms a
kind of narrow of which divides this great sea in two separate bodies
you sprinkle, and the pirates were completely out now driven of the westerner
division. Pompey sent later his/her principal fleet them, with orders to