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Meanwhile Totila had come to meet him from Rome, and had managed to reach Tadinum, the modern Gualdo Tadino, when he found Narses, unexpectedly, for he must have thought the way over the mountains securely barred by the fortress of Petra Pertusa, upon the great road before him. Narses sent an embassy to Totila to offer, "not peace, but pardon;" this the barbarian refused.
At Luceoli upon the Flaminian Way, not far from Gualdo Tadino where Narses had broken Totila, in that glorious place his own soldiers slew him and sent his head to Heraclius. Isaac's rule was not fortunate for the imperialists. In this fight 8000 fell on the Roman side, the rest fleeing away." Nor was this all.
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