During Rome's civil war, Sextus Pompey established a powerful pirate fleet that controlled the Mediterranean and cut off Rome's grain supply, threatening the city with starvation and nearly crushing Octavian's forces before the Roman Empire was established.
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Rome collapsed into civil war. Sextus Pompey seized the seas. [music] He cut Rome's grain supply. Starvation threatened the city. War spread across the Mediterranean, but Octavian struck back, and Rome [music] moved closer to empire.
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