Quote of the Day: war booty, dead peasants

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“The Romans had already made off with a large amount of booty when some improvised bands of Etruscan peasants, hurriedly called up by the leading men of the district, encountered them, but with such lack of discipline that in trying to recover the spoils they nearly became spoils themselves. The Romans killed them or put them to flight, and after devastating the countryside over a wide area, they returned to camp victorious and enriched with all kinds of supplies.”

Titus Livy. “Rome and Italy.”.