Julius Caesar and His Pirate Adventure

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When Julius Caesar’s father died suddenly when Caesar was 16, it put him in charge of the family. Around 17 he had also been appointed the High Priest of Jupiter, though was later stripped of this position when Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix) became dictator of Rome.

[LobsterPuncher]

Caeser: I'm totally gonna crucify you guys when I get home lol

Pirates: LMAO you cray bro.

Some time later: †††

[mechasentai]

You tell your captors you'll hunt them down and kill them before they let you go and then you do. Now that's how you get a salad named after you.

[Strothy]

**Look at me I'm the captain now** pirates start sweating...

[WardNightstone]

...once again i ask HOW IS THIS NOT A MOVIE!?

[MajesticSkywhale]

Imagine the balls it takes to tell your pirate captors that you're going to come back and crucify them all if they release you...and then you do.

[poezombi]

This debacle is hands down my favorite story from his life. Which leads me to ask, why has this particular event not been made into a movie, or short series? It sets up for everything to come, and it is one hell of a great segment of his life, perfect for a self contained story

[gustavgnoettgen]

This and that Rhine bridge are my favorite Ceasar anecdotes. So metal.

[sarasamaletdin]

It wasn’t really legal for Caesar get the trope to hunt the pirates but it’s not as if legality of what you could do with troops ever stopped Caesar.

[thenotsodemocraticrepublic]

Those where the days always on the run crucifying Pirates falling in love in Egypt exploring Britain and not have 23 knives in my body

[JustinY.]

Man One Piece sure sounds a bit different

[laikathunderchild]

“High priest of Jupiter “, now that’s a title!

[krisinsaigon]

I've always loved this story, I remember reading it in an Asterix book

[Rakshasa]

The pirates pranked Caesar by kidnapping him.

Caesar pranked the pirates by having them crucified.

[tusharthegreatest]

Julius Caesar is kidnap king of India Vikramaditya and was taken to city Ujjain for few days as prisoner

[bkdmode]

This video made me think of DS9; in that show, all "Runabout shuttles" were named after famous rivers on Earth (as in Ganges or Rio Grande) but a famous runabout was called Rubicon which I had thought violated the naming convention. So with this video, it was finally proved to me that the Rubicon shuttle did indeed fit the established naming scheme for DS9's shuttles. Like if you also caught the Star Trek connection to the name "Rubicon".

[jeff-lkyj]

I hope you know how much of a small yet significant impact in thousands of peoples of lives. I have very little sources for interesting information so videos like these just spice up my (usually boring) day. Doubt comments get read but Cheers mate! 😀

[rc]

I remember this mission in Age of Empires rise of Rome

[scottfoster]

This is one to study Cesar would assert with seemingly few legions backing him. BUT I have read where the Pirates maybe-kind of-felt sorry for the guy. AS you say Cesar acted like the leader BUT here was a young 25-year-old kind of wacky guy. He made them keep quiet when he slept, and he wrote poems and stories reading them to the Pirates as well. They were not afraid, even worse just thought this young man had way to high opinion of himself. I wonder if he warned them NOT to remain on that island for too long after letting him go. Yep, there is a reason ALL chairman, czar, champion and on on comes from him.

[jadenross]

Pirates: so, what are you going to do when you're free?
Julius Caesar (in complete seriousness): I'm going to gather together a fleet and kill you all
Pirates: 🤣ok, bud, whatever you say
*Some time later
Pirate(looking through a telescope): uh, captain, you remember that guy that said he would kill us all when he was free?
Captain: yeah
Pirate: you might want to take a look at this
Captain (looking through the telescope at Caesar): ah, fuck.

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