The spolia opima ("rich spoils") were the armor, arms, and other effects that an ancient Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing commander slain in single combat.

Pampanga is the first province and the richest spoil created by the Spaniards in 1571.

So it was, for they quarreled among themselves, and slew one another, leaving to the people of Judah only to gather the rich spoils of the slain.

Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons, winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips?

On thy back, I set a rich spoil and a Treasure in thy loins.

The Syrians, seized with panic, fled into the Philistine territory, and only then did the Jews seize the rich spoils (166 BC).

It had not been all victory, though his followers revelling in the rich spoil of the castle thought it had been.

In 1474, at the head of troops recruited by Mattihias Corvinus, he organized a successful rally at the Greater Poland, from where he brought a rich spoil.

If rich spoils were the result, it was enough to give rise to the idea of the golden fleece.

Venice got the better part of the rich spoils from the sacking of the city, as well as numerous Byzantine territories.