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Which Roman Emperor was captured by pirates while he a young soldier and lived to boast about it?
It was Julius Caesar. However:
1) He was a young soldier then. At the time he was a lawyer
2) He never became an emperor. Throughout his lifetime Rome was a republic
3) There is no record of Caesar boasting about this episode.
Julius Caesar was sailing the Aegean Sea to go to the Greek island of Rhodes to study rhetoric. Caesar played games with the pirates and laughed and chatted with them while in captivity. When learned the amount the pirates were asking for him, he took offense and said he was worth much more. Before being released he promised that he would find them and crucify them. He went to Rhodes and to collect a ship and allies. Although he had been blindfolded when he was taken to the hideaway of the pirates, he was able to retrace them. To show leniency he first had their throats cut so that they would not surer a slow death.
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