measures to have him rejected, and in consultation whether he should be
put to death, when it was urged by some that it was not worth his while
to contrive the death of a boy, he answered, that they knew little who
did not see more than one Marius in that boy. Caesar, on being informed
of this saying, concealed himself, and for a considerable time kept out
of the way in the country of the Sabines, often changing his quarters,
till one night, as he was removing from one house to another on account
of his health, he fell into the hands of Sylla's soldiers, who were searching
those parts in order to apprehend any who had absconded. Caesar, by a bribe
of two talents, prevailed with Cornelius, their captain, to let him go,
and was no sooner dismissed but he put to sea and made for Bithynia. After
a short stay there with Nicomedes, the king, in his passage back he was
taken near the island of Pharmacusa by some of the pirates, who, at that
time, with large fleets of ships and innumerable smaller vessels, infested
the seas everywhere
