He sacked 24 cities. Why do you sack a city?

他洗劫了24个城市为什么要这样呢
To steal what they have and, well,

为了侵占更多的财富
there are all kinds of wonderful examples of people in the Iliad

这里有段伊利亚特人和奥德赛人的对话
and the Odyssey. Some stranger comes,

很具有代表性有个陌生人
this is in the Odyssey, and they ask him,

来到奥德赛他们问他
"Sir, are you a pirate?" And he says,

"先生你是海盗吗" 然后他回答说
"No, no, I'm not a pirate," Just like they asked,

"不我不是海盗" 就像平时我们说
I mean, "Do you come from Chicago?"

"你是芝加哥人吗"
He wasn't insulted. "No, I'm not a pirate,

这是很正常的 "我不是个海盗
but I could've been, of course.

但我可以成为一个海盗
We understand that."

我们都明白"
And then later on in the story that Homer tells in the Odyssey,

但在荷马写的《奥德赛》这一节中