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ThuSj wln'Je Some was Miftreis of the World, flie 

 fuffered Infuks nnd Affronts, almoft at her Gates, 

 fi*om thefe powerful Robbers but what for a while 

 m^ide Fadion ceafe, and roufed the Genius of that 

 People, never ufed to fuflfer Wrongs from a fair 

 Enerhv, was an excefli^^e Scarcity of Provifions m 

 Kome, occafioned bv all the Ship?? loaden with Corn 

 and Provifions from Sxily. Corficay and other Places, 

 bei'n?2: i? tercepred and taken by thefe Py rates, info- 

 Kiuch that they were almoft reduced to a Famine : 

 Upon this, Pompey the Great was immediately ap- 

 poMi^ed Geiieral to manage this War five hundered 

 Sh^ps were immediately fitted out, he had fourteen 

 Senators, Men of Experience in the War, for his 

 V'ce-Admirals ; and fb confiderable an Enemy, 

 were thefe Ruffians become, that no lefs than an 

 Army o^a hundred thoufand Foot, and five thou- 

 fand Horfe was appointed to invade them by Land; 

 but it happened very luckily for ^^^m^*, th:it Pompey 

 failM ou^ before the Pyrate had Intelligence of a 

 T3ef pn againft them, fo that their Ships were feat- 

 teredali ever the Mediterranean^ like Bees gone out 

 ' from a Eive, fome one Way, fome another, to 

 brini^ f^ome their Lading- Pomfey AWideA his Fleet 

 into thirteen Squadrons, to whom he appo'nted 

 their fever al Stations, lb thit great Numbers of the 

 Pyrates fell into their Hands, Ship by Ship, with^ 

 out any Lofs ^ forty Days he palled in fcouring the 

 Med'terranean. fome of the Fleet cruizing along 

 the Coaft of JfncL^ fome al^out the Iflands, and 

 fome upoii the Italian Coafts, fo that often thole 

 Pyrates who were iiying from one Squadron, fell 

 5n w'th another * however, fome of them efcaped, 

 and thefe making direftly toCilicia^ and acquaint- 

 ing their Confederates on Shore with what had 

 happened^ they appomted a Rendezvous of all the 

 Ships that had efcaped at the Port of Coracefmm.^ in 

 th^ fiiiiie Country. Pomfey finding the Mediterranean 



