From Tacitus (56-117), Senator and historian of the Roman empire, The Agricola and The Germania:
Plunderers of the world, when nothing remains on the lands to which they have laid waste by wanton thievery, they search out across the seas. The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well…Among all others only they are compelled to attack the poor as well as the rich. To robbery, rape, and slaughter they give the lying name of empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
