 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 666 pagine
...cities, which the pirates had taken, were paying their ransom, to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities taken to four hundred. Temples, which till then had stood inviolably sacred, became subject to their rapine. They ruined that... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pagine
...cities the pirates had taken were paying their ransom, all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were masters of, to four thousand. Temples, which had stood inviolably sacred till that time,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1821 - 318 pagine
...cities the pirates had taken were paying their ransom ; all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were masters of to four hundred. Temples, which had stood inviolably sacred till that time, they... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 550 pagine
...cities the pirates had taken were paying their ransom ; all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were masters of to four hundred. Temples, which had stood inviolably sacred till that time, they... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 444 pagine
...cities the pirates had taken were paying their ransom ; all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were master of to four hundred. Their power extended over the whole Tuscan Sea, so that the Romans... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 446 pagine
...cities the pirates hud taken were paying their ransom ; all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were master of to four hundred. Their power extended over the whole Tuscan Sea, so that the Romans... | |
 | Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough - 1905
...cities the pirates had taken were paying their ransom; all to the great disgrace of the Roman power. The number of their galleys amounted to a thousand, and the cities they were masters of to four hundred. Temples, which had stood inviolably sacred till that time, they... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1838 - 594 pagine
...want of him the more sensibly." Literally, " they want him the more painfully." 5. Maritimum beUum. " The war with the Cilician pirates." The power of the...at sea, but infested the great roads, and plundered the villas near the coast. Two praetors, Sextilius and Bellinus, were Page. carried off with all their... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 586 pagine
...Cilicia. He was now employed in visiting some of the cities of the east. 4. Quo etiam carent aegriut. " On which account they even feel the want of him the...at sea, but infested the great roads, and plundered the villas near the coast. Two praetors, Sextilius and Bellinus, were Pag.. carried off with all their... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1842 - 594 pagine
...of him the more sensibly." Literally. u they want him the more painfully." 3. Muritimum let In in. " The war with the Cilician pirates." The power of the...convoys, and made prisoners of their generals. Nay; rhey not only attacked the Romans at sea, but infested the great roads, and plundered the villas near... | |
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The war with the Cilician pirates." The power of the pirates, as Plutarch remarks, ( Vit. Pomp. c. 24) had its foundation in Cilicia. Their progress was the more dangerous, because at first it was little noticed. In the Mithridatic war they assumed new... 
