When Pirates kidnapped Julius Caesar, what could go wrong?

What happens when one of history most powerful man get´s himself kidnapped?

This incredible story got to us thanks to ancient author Plutarch of Chaeronea in the writing "Life of Julius Caeser", so no need for further links, just google him.

Piracy was common practice in ancient times, and the Mediterranean sea was full of Cilician Pirates wich would trade slaves, smuggle all kinds of products and kidnap anyone who would get them a nice ramson reward, unfortunately for these pirates, they kidnapped the wrong person...
In 75 BC Julius Caeser at the time 25 years old got himself kidnapped by Cilician Pirates asking a ransom of 20 talents of silver (a lot of silver!!), what followed according to Plutarch was an increase in the amount of the ransom, and then...

[2.1] First, when the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.
[2.2] Then, when he had sent his followers to the various cities in order to raise the money and was left with one friend and two servants among these Cilicians, about the most bloodthirsty people in the world, he treated them so highhandedly that, whenever he wanted to sleep, he would send to them and tell them to stop talking.
[2.3] For thirty-eight days, with the greatest unconcern, he joined in all their games and exercises, just as if he was their leader instead of their prisoner.
[2.4] He also wrote poems and speeches which he read aloud to them, and if they failed to admire his work, he would call them to their faces illiterate savages, and would often laughingly threaten to have them all hanged. They were much taken with this and attributed his freedom of speech to a kind of simplicity in his character or boyish playfulness.
[2.5] However, the ransom arrived from Miletus and, as soon as he had paid it and been set free, he immediately manned some ships and set sail from the harbor of Miletus against the pirates. He found them still there, lying at anchor off the island, and he captured nearly all of them.
[2.6] He took their property as spoils of war and put the men themselves into the prison at Pergamon. He then went in person to [Marcus] Junius, the governor of Asia, thinking it proper that he, as praetor in charge of the province, should see to the punishment of the prisoners.
[2.7] Junius, however, cast longing eyes at the money, which came to a considerable sum, and kept saying that he needed time to look into the case.Caesar paid no further attention to him. He went to Pergamon, took the pirates out of prison and crucified the lot of them, just as he had often told them he would do when he was on the island and they imagined that he was joking.

hummm, so it seems our friend Julius Caeser (did you know the month July received that name in his honor?) paid the ransom and got himself free, only to get Roman ships on his control, capture the pirates, crucify them and get is revenge!! pretty brutal if you ask me

That´s a crazy story on Steem for today,
stay cool and please be careful if you are a sailor!