While a young man and on his way to college none other than Julius Caesar's ship was attacked by pirates. He was captured for ransom. But rather than a normal experience, he treated his captors like his servants, and told them exactly what he was going to do to them when he was freed. And in true Caesar fashion, he did exactly that.
Sources
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/velleius_paterculus/2b*.html
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-caesar/caesar-and-the-pirates/
https://www.britannica.com/story/the-time-julius-caesar-was-captured-by-pirates
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