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Updated: April 30, 2025

Gifts worthy of soldiers the warlike steed, the bloody and even victorious lance were the rewards which the companions claimed from the liberality of their chief. The rude plenty of his hospitable board was the only pay that hecould bestow, or they would accept. War, rapine, and the free-will offerings of his friends, supplied the materials of this munificence.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1