[Kansas58]

[spyone]

Ironically, Pompey’s son Sextus, became a very successful pirate for a while.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The pirates in those days were based primarily in Illyria (modern Dalmatia), like Caesar's pirates, and Cilicia, in southeastern Asia Minor, famous as the pirates that Spartacus tried to hire to get the revolting slaves out of Italy. After Pompey put them down the Romans made both areas provinces of the Empire. Illyria became part of Caesar's province, along with Gaul, and Cilicia was governed by, among others, the orator Cicero, who got to lead some legions keeping the piratical homeland underneath the Roman heel.

[SunkenCiv]

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[jalisco555]

Another interesting parallel between today’s piracy and the problem the Romans faced is the total sense of paralysis and hopelessness the Romans felt in the face of piracy (the pirates even raided Rome itself) and the relative ease with which they defeated the pirates once they decided that enough was enough. I suspect that a NATO fleet with robust rules of engagement could take the pirates out pretty quickly. All that’s lacking is the will.

[ZULU]

“Of course these were more barbaric times without our current level of understanding of how the world works.”

Of course. (Sarcasm)

The ROmans understood the correct way to deal with troublemakers. We did too, once upon a time, before the bacillus of political correctness fried our brains.

[eleni121]

Of course these were more barbaric times without our current level of understanding of how the world works.

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Mega sarcasm of course!