They were a mob of marauders, each carrying a quantity of articles which seemed to him valuable or useful.
When about sixteen years of age he was carried off by a band of Irish marauders.
Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander-in-chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them.
Some of the native trees have developed ingenious methods of defence, one of which is that of attracting small colonies of another species to drive away the marauders.
The valour of the Aetolians was conspicuously displayed in 279, when they broke the strength of the Celtic irruption by slaughtering great hordes of marauders.