reward
noun
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
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“The empire that Rome won,” St. Augustin, with agreeable ingenuousness, remarked, “God gave her in order that, though pagan and consequently unrewardable hereafter, her virtues should not remain unrecognized below.”
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus