He found his fleet at Brundusium, and, immediately embarking, he put to sea.
[Sidenote: Some of them surrender.] Pompey went on to the completion of his work with the same vigor and decision which he had displayed in the commencement of it.

Some of the pirates, finding themselves hemmed in within narrower and narrower limits, gave up the contest, and came and surrendered.

Pompey, instead of punishing them severely for their crimes, treated them, and their wives and children, who fell likewise into his power, with great humanity.

This induced many others to follow their example, so that the number that remained resisting to the end was greatly reduced.

There were, however, after all these submissions, a body of stern and indomitable desperadoes left, who were incapable of yielding.