How to remove sea pirates?

[cmacq]

Starforge and SwissBarbar are correct, and WSF...W is right about the location of a hot bed in EB. If I remember correctly as late as 68 BC pirates attacked and burned the port of Ostia, only a few miles from Rome. They captured two Roman ex-praetors, a significant number of prominent Roman citizens, and several barges full of Rome's winter grain supply. They also burned part of war fleet harbored there. This attack may have come from Crete, as a short time later in 68 we find the ex-consul Q. Caecilius Metellus campaigning against the pirates of Crete, which he subdued in 67 and thereafter the island was annexed as a Roman province.

As LordCurlyton says, the more coastal provinces in independent hands, the more pirate will be spawned. Rather than changing anything, you might simply build a fleet and deal with them.



CmacQ

[Wausser]

Q. Caecilius Metellus

Don't forget the cognomen Creticus

[cmacq]

Don't forget the cognomen Creticus

Right,

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (given for the conquest of Crete).



CmacQ

[theoldbelgian]

was it common in that time to give the name of a province to the conquerer of it?
I recall this happening with Scipio who was named africanus after the conquest of Carthage
but I thought that this was because it was such a major feat