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Cilicia (Roman province) (1,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Republic in 64 BC by Pompey, as a consequence of his victory over the Cilician pirates and in the Third Mithridatic War. It was subdivided by Diocletian in

Hermione (Argolis) (1,664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

her brother. It was an inviolable sanctuary; but it was plundered by Cilician pirates. Opposite this temple was one sacred to Clymenus and to the right was

75 BC (286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Apollonius Molon. On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. The young

Ptolemy of Cyprus (260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pulcher, by failing to ransom him when he had fallen into the hands of Cilician pirates. When Clodius became tribune (58 BC), he enacted a law to deprive Ptolemy

Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger (361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Gnaeus Pompeius triumphed for his several victories over the Cilician pirates, Tigranes the Great and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Messalla, as consul

Battle of Girolata (1,277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mediterranean, and following the example of Pompey in his war against the Cilician pirates, he divided his ships into five squadrons which he assigned to patrol

Antikythera (1,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 4th and 1st centuries BC, it was used as a base by a group of Cilician pirates until their destruction by Pompey the Great. Their fort can still be

Dyme (912 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

been without inhabitants when Pompey settled here a large number of Cilician pirates. In the civil wars that followed, some of these new inhabitants were

70s BC (1,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Apollonius Molon. On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. The young

Mithra (2,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attributed an Anatolian origin to the Mysteries, for according to him the Cilician pirates whom Pompey defeated in 67 BCE. "celebrated certain secret rites, amongst

Campaign history of the Roman military (17,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

From its origin as a city-state on the peninsula of Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe

Lampsacus (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name was Pityoussa; during the Roman Civil Wars Sertorius with some Cilician pirates effected a landing at an island of Pityussa on the North African coast

Third Servile War (6,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

near Messina. According to Plutarch, Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended

First Servile War (1,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conquered were sold into slavery, the slave-dealing of the Cretan and Cilician pirates whose activity was practically unchecked at this time, as well as the

Faustus Cornelius Sulla (quaestor 54 BC) (1,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ornament of a ship stern) also refers to Pompey's campaign against the Cilician pirates in 67 BC. Faustus Sulla was quaestor in 54 BC. The senate commissioned