Destroy enemy fields with hellebore and salt
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On the destruction of fields. There are times, travelling through hostile land, when you will attempt to destroy its fields, farming hellebore; for Alexander the Macedonian, using this manner, took the Alans. Fields are also destroyed by salts being sown in them and covered with ploughs; for a long time this can put them in a very bad state.
Greek
2.2 Περὶ ἀγρῶν ἀφανισμοῦ Ἔσθ' ὅτε, διοδεύων γῆν πολεμίαν, ταύτης τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἀφανίζειν ἐπιχειρήσεις, ἐλλέβορον γεωργῶν· τούτῳ γὰρ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδὼν χρησάμενος τῷ τρόπῳ εἷλεν Ἀλανούς. Ἀφανίζονται δὲ ἀγροὶἁλῶν τε σπειρομένων ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἀρότροις ἐγκαλυπτομένων· ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον δύναται τοῦ<το αὐ>τοὺς πάνυ κακῶς διαθεῖναι.