Know Your Worth Caesar ~ Comfort Colors Tee

Kidnapped ~ Insulted by the Asking Price ~ Fixed It

Around 75 BC, pirates grabbed a young Julius Caesar and asked twenty talents for him. According to Plutarch, he laughed at the number and had it raised to fifty, since the pirates clearly had no idea who they were holding. They took the raise and were pleased with themselves. That did not last.

• For the one who never takes the first offer: A gift for the friend who negotiates her own birthday dinner bill upward and the coworker who sent back a job offer with notes.
• Hostage negotiation, reversed: The captors wanted money, the captive wanted respect, and only one of them was good at math.
• Ransomed from: Part of Pirate History & Legends, where the price of a Roman was set by the Roman.