When somebody inquired why he forbade spoiling the enemy's dead, he said, ‘So that the soldiers may not, by looking about covertly for spoil, neglect their fighting, but also that they may keep to their poverty as well as to their post.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 224 B (16), supra.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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