"Silly dog", I say, "you're so small, how can you think you can protect me?"
She looks at me with her round black eyes. "Silly girl", she thinks, "doesn't she know that big things need protection too?"

TIL in the pre-classical era, the ancient Greeks condoned piracy as a viable profession; it apparently was widespread and "regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living". References are made to its perfectly normal occurrence in many texts including in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. [source, comments]