Yeah, I feel kinda bad about looting the temple now. At the time I was really paranoid about the Seleukids attacking me before I could recruit any more troops, but as it turned out they laid off for a couple years, so I could have gradually made my way out of debt without the loot. Ah well. I'm role-playing it as the king promising his troops "just one more town boys, then I'll pay you all your back-pay with the loot from the temple" :)

Slight change of pace for the next update...