omnes orae, etc.: referring to the Piratic War. There is no extravagance in this; the suppression of piracy was the most glorious part of Pompey's career. servitutis: the slave system of the ancients made captives a lucrative booty in war. hieme, i.e. he either had to sail in the winter, exposed to the danger of being lost at sea (mortis), or, etc. tam vetus: the piratical forces were made up of the wreck of those numberless armies beaten and broken up in the wars of the past half-century or more. When the lesser states lost their independence, their bravest men would often prefer the outlaw freedom of piracy to personal slavery, or even to political subjugation. In fact, the pirate state in Cilicia made a sort of republic, unrecognized and defiant. quis . . . arbitraretur: ยง 444 (268); B. 277; G. 265; H. 559, 4 (484, v); H.-B. 503.
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