Topic summary
War booty
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Looting.
In armed conflict
The Greek historian Polybius recounts that in the Roman era there existed a particular regulation concerning war booty after having conquered a city. Depending on the size of the city, the Romans assigned to the collection of booty, in some cases some men taken from each maniple, while at other times entire maniples. They never, however, employed for this operation more than half of their troops. The others were arranged to control the key points of the city, both internally and externally, always ready to intervene at any moment.