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subjected to rapine and plunder every day
Caius Lucretius had carried off in ships, to Antium, the plunder amassed by such sacrilege and had dragged persons of free condition into slavery; the property of the allies of the Roman people was subjected to rapine and plunder every day.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

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