you brought it on yourself miss twiddle

Velleius Paterculus, 2.41.3-43.1
Still a young man, he was captured by pirates, and his behavior among them for the whole duration of his captivity instilled equal measures of fear and respect. Never, either day or night (for why should the most important point be left out, simply because it cannot be said elegantly?) did he go without belt or shoes, to not become suspect, by varying anything from his usual routine, to the men who were guarding him merely with their eyes.

It would be too long to relate how many and what attempts he dared, how vehemently the magistrate of the Roman people who had been allotted the province of Asia failed to support these attempts out of his own cowardice. Consider it evidence of a man who would later survive much. When he was ransomed with funds from the local cities (on the condition that he force the pirates to give hostages beforehand), that very night he got together an adhoc and unofficial fleet, sailed to the pirates' location, where he put some of their ships to flight, sunk others, and captured a number of them along with many souls.

Rejoicing in his nocturnal expedition, he returned to his men in triumph, and, having turned over his captives into custody, he set out for Bithynia to Iuncus the Proconsul (who had been allotted this province as well as that of Asia), asking him to use his authority to execute the captured pirates. When Iuncus refused to do it and said that he would sell them instead, his sloth having turned into a grudge, Caesar sailed back with unbelievable speed. Before the Proconsul's dispatch on the subject could be given to anyone, he crucified all of his captives.

Subsequently, hastening back to Italy to take up a priesthood (he had been chosen Pontifex in the place of the distinguished Cotta)… to avoid being sighted by the pirates, who controlled all the seas and were understandable hostile to him, he embarked on a four-oared boat with only two companions and ten slaves and crossed the raging gulf of the Adriatic. During the crossing, he thought that he sighted the pirates' ships When he had thrown off his clothes and bound a dagger to his thigh, preparing himself for every eventuality of fortune, he then realized that his vision had been mistaken and that a stand of trees seen from an angle had given the appearance of masts.

Some people distinguish analogy from similarity; we consider it a subset of this trope. For "as one is to ten, so is ten to one hundred" is certainly based on similarity, and "a bad citizen is just like an enemy." Although these things often go too far, too, as for example: "if it is shameful for the mistress of the house to have intercourse with a slave, then it is shameful for the master to have intercourse with a slave girl."

1: Galactic Empires
One would not think that Empire could survive
As starships Roman cavalry displace;
The politics of Space must needs derive
From Einstein's time, Planck's heat and Riemann's space.
Yet "history repeats," some (heedless) say,
Analogies persist, however crude,
And democratic notions all give way
To fealty and service, fief and feud.
The Empire will not die, as mortals must,
The purple of their robes is colorfast;
Their golden age untouched by moth or rust,
And liberties, it seems cannot outlast
The paper image of a narrow Rome
Bestrode by cardboard Caesars dressed in chrome.

The Man Released By his Son the Pirate King
A certain man, when his wife died, from whom he had two sons, married another. He convicted one of the youths at home of parricide; he handed him over to his brother to be punished, who put him in a faulty boad. The youth, carried toward pirates, was made Pirate King (nb the word is archipirata, in case you were wondering). Later the father, having set out abroad, was captured by him and set free to go back home. He disinherits the other son [for disobedience].

The Madman who Married his Daughter to his Slave
A tyrant permitted slaves to rape their mistresses, having killed their masters. The leading men of the city fled; among them one who had a son and a daughter set out abroad. Although all the slaves violated their mistresses, his slaves preserved [his daughter] as a virgin. The tyrant killed, the leading men returned; they put their slaves to the cross. But this man manumitted his slave and gave him his daughter. He is accused by his son of madness.

The man beaten by his son in the Citadel
The tyrant called the father with his two sons to the citadel. He ordered the youths to beat (nb the word usually means "kill" but that obviously doesn't work; is also can mean "sodomize"...) their father. One of them flung himself off the citadel, the other beat him. After, he was received into the tyrant's friendship. When the tyrant was killed, he got the reward. The son is to be punished [for striking his father]. His father defends him

The Prostitute-Priestess
A certain virgin, captured by pirates, was put up for sale. She was bought by a pander and prostituted. She begged alms from her clients. A soldier who had come to her, when she couldn't beg from him, and he was struggling and trying to rape her, she killed. Accused and absolved, she was returned to her family. She seeks a priesthood.

The Tyrannicide Freed by Pirates
A certain killed one brother, a tyrant, and the other when he caught him in adultery, in spite of his father's pleading. Captured by pirates, he write his father about ransom. The father wrote a letter to the pirates: if they cut off his hands first, he would give them double The pirates release him [with hands]. He isn't supporting his impoverished father.