⚓ A Young Julius Caesar and the Cilician Pirates | 75 BC Always open to critiques of my Latin translations and pronunciations. Date note (why 75 BC): Caesar was born in 100 BC, and ancient sources describe his capture occurring when he was about 25 years old while sailing to Rhodes to study oratory after military service in Asia Minor. Aligning these details, historians place the event around 75 BC, as supported by Plutarch (Life of Caesar 2–3) and Suetonius (Divus Julius 4). Who was captured?
A 25-year-old Gaius Julius Caesar, a young Roman noble traveling to Rhodes (Greek island) to study oratory with Apollonius Molon, was seized near Pharmakousa in the Aegean Sea. Who captured him?
Cilician pirates — sea-raiders based in southern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from the region of Cilicia (a coastal province in southern Anatolia whose mountains and coves made it ideal for piracy) — who dominated the eastern Mediterranean by kidnapping travelers for ransom. What did they demand? 
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