A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . s wasdriven into exile. This event weakened the senatorial oli-garchy, and helped Pompeius in his contest with it. War with the Pirates. — In 65 Pompeius retired fromoffice; but two years later he assumed command in the waragainst the pirates. These had taken possession of creeks and valleys in western Ciliciaand Pamphylia, and hadnumerous fleets. Not con-fining their depredationsto the sea, they plunderedthe coasts of Italy, andstopped the corn ships onwhich Rome depended forfood. Pompeius under-took to exterminate th
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . s wasdriven into exile. This event weakened the senatorial oli-garchy, and helped Pompeius in his contest with it. War with the Pirates. — In 65 Pompeius retired fromoffice; but two years later he assumed command in the waragainst the pirates. These had taken possession of creeks and valleys in western Ciliciaand Pamphylia, and hadnumerous fleets. Not con-fining their depredationsto the sea, they plunderedthe coasts of Italy, andstopped the corn ships onwhich Rome depended forfood. Pompeius under-took to exterminate thispiratical community. Bythe Gabinian Law, he wasclothed with more power than had ever been committed to anindividual. He was to have absolute command over the Medi-terranean and its coasts for fifty miles inland. He used thisunlimited authority for war purposes alone, and in three monthscompletely accomplished the work assigned him. He capturedthree thousand vessels, and put to death ten thousand thousand captives he settled in the interior of Cilicia,. Merchant Ship POMPEIUS AND THE EAST 157 Poiflpeius in the East. — The success of Pompeius was theprelude to a wider extension of his power and his the return of Sulla from the East, another MithridaticWar (83-81), the second in the series, had ended in the sameterms of peace that had been agreed upon before (p. 152). In74 the contest began anew against Mithridates, and Tigranesof Armenia, his son-in-law. For a number of years Lucullus,the Roman commander, was successful; but finally Mithri-dates regained what he had lost, and kejot up his aggressivecourse. In 66 , on a motion that was supported by Cicero,in the speech for the Manilian Law, but opposed by the aris-tocratic party in the Senate, Pompeius was made commanderin the East for an indefinite term. So extensive powers hadnever before been committed to a Eoman. He drove Mithri-dates out of Pontus into Armenia. Tigranes laid his crown atth
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