07-18-2008, 04:02 PM
The Gauls, definitely. Alone of the non-Italian peoples they conquered, sacked and extorted ransom from the city. Then for the next couple of centuries they threw a fright into the Romans with incursions in force into Italy, sometimes forcing Rome to break off a foreign war to drive them out of the peninsula. Three and a half centuries after the sack, it was payback time.
Pecunia non olet