Need I mention, how Cnidus , and
 Colophon , and Samos , most noble cities, and others too in countless numbers, were taken by them,
 when you know that your own harbours, and those harbours too from which you derive, as it were,
 your very life and breath, were in the power of the pirates? Are you ignorant that the harbour
 of Caieta , that illustrious harbour, when full of
 ships, was plundered by the pirates under the very eyes of the praetor? and that from Misenum , the children of the very man who had before that
 waged war against the pirates in that place, were carried off by the pirates? For why should I
 complain of the disaster of Ostia , and of that stain
 and blot on the republic, when almost under your very eyes, that fleet which was under the
 command of a Roman consul was taken and destroyed by the pirates? O ye immortal gods! could the
 incredible and godlike virtue of one man in so short a time bring so much light to the republic,
 that you who had lately been used to see a fleet of the enemy before the mouth of the Tiber , should now hear that there is not one ship belonging to
 the pirates on this side of the Atlantic?