Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Praecia, Praeda

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Praeda

A Latin word signifying movable things taken by an enemy in war. Such things were either distributed by the imperator among the soldiers or sold by the quaestors, and the produce was paid into the Aerarium or State treasury. The difference between praeda and manubiae lies in the fact that praeda means the things themselves that are taken in war, while manubiae is the money realized from their sale (Gell. xiii. 24). It was the practice to set up a spear at such sales, which was afterwards used at all sales of things by a magistratus in the name of the people. See Sectio; Spolia.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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