To this Cicero's reproach presumably points (De Off.iii.

12, 49): -piratas immunes habemus, socios vectigales-; in so far, namely, as those pirate-colonies probably had the privilege of immunity conferred on them by Pompeius, while, as is well known, the provincial communities dependent on Rome were, as a rule, liable to taxation.
23.

IV.VIII.

Pontus 24.

V.IV.Battle at Nicopolis 25.