Besides the fighting priest, whom we have handed over to you, only a few thieves have been apprehended, and they belong exclusively to the caste, [According to Diodorous (I.80) there was a cast of thieves in Thebes.

All citizens were obliged to enter their names in a register, and state where they lived, and the thieves did the same.
The names were enrolled by the "chief of the thieves," and all stolen goods had to be given up to him.

The person robbed had to give a written description of the object he had lost, and a declaration as to when and where he had lost it.

The stolen property was then easily recovered, and restored to the owner on the payment of one fourth of its value, which was given to the thief.

A similar state of things existed at Cairo within a comparatively short time.] so we simply take their booty from them, and let them go.