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Quote of the Day
When they thought that they were at length prepared for this undertaking, they set fire to all their towns, in number about twelve - to their villages about four hundred - and to the private dwellings that remained; they burn up all the corn, except what they intend to carry with them; that after destroying the hope of a return home, they might be the more ready for undergoing all dangers.
-- The Gallic Wars, by Julius Caesar. 1.5.
http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.1.1.html
Sounds very similar to the Exodus.
upd: another great quote -
for the immortal gods are wont to allow those persons whom they wish to punish for their guilt sometimes a greater prosperity and longer impunity, in order that they may suffer the more severely from a reverse of circumstances.
-- ibid 1.14.
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