Pompey the Great wasn’t given the title “Magnus” by the dictator Sulla for no reason. One of those reasons was that Pompey cleaned up the pirates that had been besieging the entire Mediterranean for a couple of centuries, a task which he was given three years to complete, but concluded in three months in 67 BC at the Battle of Coracesium. The pirates ha…
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