Caesar Raised His Own Ransom—and Returned for the Pirates

Around 75 BC, pirates captured the young Roman nobleman Julius Caesar and demanded twenty talents of silver. According to Plutarch, Caesar laughed at the amount and told them to demand fifty. During his 38 days in captivity, he wrote and recited poems, joked with his captors, and promised he would return to punish them. They apparently took it as a joke.

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