He was put ashore on the coast of Asia Minor.

He proceeded immediately to Miletus, the nearest port, equipped a small fleet there, and put to sea.

He sailed at once to the roadstead where the pirates had been lying, and found them still at anchor there, in perfect security.[1] He attacked them, seized their ships, recovered his ransom money, and took the men all prisoners.

He conveyed his captives to the land, and there fulfilled his threat that he would crucify them by cutting their throats and nailing their dead bodies to crosses which his men erected for the purpose along the shore.
[Footnote 1: See Frontispiece] [Sidenote: Caesar at Rhodes.] During his absence from Rome Caesar went to Rhodes, where his former preceptor resided, and he continued to pursue there for some time his former studies.

He looked forward still to appearing one day in the Roman Forum.