corsair-state

Updated: June 9, 2025

With what effect the pirates interfered in the Mithradatic war, and how the obstinate resistance of the Pontic maritime towns derived its best resources from the corsair-state, has been already related. But that state transacted business on a hardly less grand scale on its own behoof.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

With what effect the pirates interfered in the Mithradatic war, and how the obstinate resistance of the Pontic maritime towns derived its best resources from the corsair-state, has been already related. But that state transacted business on a hardly less grand scale on its own behoof.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy