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Queen Teuta's Pirates
Their first attack was to be upon the coast of Elis and
Teuta's piratical fleet, B. C. 230.
Messenia, which had been from time immemorial the scene of the raids of the Illyrians.
For owing to the length of their seaboard, and
to the fact that their most powerful cities were inland, troops
raised to resist them had a great way to go, and were long in
coming to the spot where the Illyrian pirates landed; who accordingly overran those districts, and swept them clean without
having anything to fear. However, when this fleet was off
Phoenice in Epirus they landed to get supplies. Takes Phoenice in Epirus. There they
fell in with some Gauls, who to the number of
eight hundred were stationed at Phoenice, being
in the pay of the Epirotes; and contracted with
them to betray the town into their hands. Having made this
bargain, they disembarked and took the town and everything
in it at the first blow, the Gauls within the walls acting in
collusion with them. When this new
Queen Teuta and Rome
To return to the Illyrians. From time immemorial
Illyrian piracies.
they had oppressed and pillaged vessels sailing
from Italy; and now while their fleet was engaged at Phoenice a considerable number of them, separating from the main body, committed acts of piracy on a
number of Italian merchants: some they merely plundered,
others they murdered, and a great many they
carried off alive into captivity. The Romans interfere, B. C. 230. Now, though
complaints against the Illyrians had reached the
Roman government in times past, they had always been
neglected; but now when more and more persons approached
the Senate on this subject, they appointed two ambassadors,
Gaius and Lucius Coruncanius, to go to Illyricum and investigate the matter. But on the arrival of her galleys from
Epirus, the enormous quantity and beauty of the spoils which
they brought home (for Phoenice was by far the wealthiest
city in Epirus at that time), so fired the imagination of Queen
Teuta, t