Nor were they less daring than rich; they had captured four hundred towns of importance, they had once kidnapped Cćsar himself, and held him for enormous ransom, [Footnote: This occurred in the year 76 B.C., when Cćsar, at the age of twenty-four, was on his way to Rhodes, intending to perfect himself in oratory at the school of Apollonius Molo, the teacher of Cicero, lie was travelling as a gentleman of rank, and was captured off Miletus.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman