During Pompey's war against the pirates, he raises a fleet of 500 warships and fights with great success.
The lex Gabinia gives Pompey command of the Mediterranean and its coasts for 50 miles inland for three years. He defeats the pirates in three months and pacifies Cilicia.
Pompey divides the Mediterranean into 13 zones – six in the West and seven in the East – to each of which he assigns a fleet under an admiral.
Pompey offers the ex-pirates and their families clemency, he settles them in agriculturalcolonies in eastern Mediterranean lands.
Tigranes II is forced to surrender, by a payment of 6,000 talents, and is reinstated by Pompey as a "friend of the Roman people" to hold Armenia as a buffer zone.
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