AstarAlien on Nostr: These bands of robbers, small in number at first, have increased their power by ...

These bands of robbers, small in number at first, have increased their power by uniting with each other, inventing warlike weapons, disciplining themselves, and perfecting their organizations as military forces, and dividing their plunder among themselves, either in such proportions as have been previously agreed on, or in such as their leaders should prescribe.