[35] when, leaving
Sardinia
, he came to
Italy
, having secured the two Spains and Cisalpine Gaul with garrisons and ships. Having sent vessels also to the coast of
Illyricum
, and to every part of
Achaia
and
Greece
, he also adorned the two seas of
Italy
with very large fleets, and very sufficient garrisons; and he himself going in person, added all
Cilicia
to the dominions of the Roman people, on the forty-ninth day after he set out from
Brundusium
. Will the pirates who were anywhere to be found, were either taken prisoners and put to death, or else had surrendered themselves voluntarily to the power and authority of this one man. Also, when the Cretans had sent ambassadors to implore his mercy even into
Pamphylia
to him, he did not deny them hopes of being allowed to surrender, and he exacted hostages from them. And thus Cnaeus Pompeius at the end of winter prepared, at the beginning of spring undertook, and by the middle of summer terminated, this most important war, which had lasted so long, which was scattered in such distant and such various places, and by which every nation and country was incessantly distressed.
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.
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