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Updated: June 8, 2025
But when Totila came forth from the tower, he had the face of one who has heard strange things. Who can say what the Almighty purposes by the power of his servant Benedict? Not unguided, surely, did the feet of the misbelieving warrior turn to climb this mount. Leaving the poet monk to nurse his hopes, Basil betook himself with rapid steps to the prior's room.
When confirmation had put the thing beyond dispute, Bessas and his supporters made a standing joke of it; if any one fell sick their word was: 'Send for the learned Totila'; and when there was talk of a siege of Rome, they declared that their greatest fear, should the city fall, was of being dieted and physicked by the victor. Romans there were, however, who heard all this in another spirit.
'Yes, Totila is noble, fell softly from him. 'Let be what will be. He is worthier than I. A knock sounded again at the door of the cell, and there entered Marcus. His keen and kindly face betrayed perturbation of spirit, and after looking from Basil to the new comer and then at Basil again, he said in a nervous voice: 'The lord abbot bids you repair at once, my brother, to the prior's room.
Theodoric tried to make a real kingdom, Totila and Teias fell fighting for one; the Franks established one in Gaul, and at last it was a Frank who gave the Empire life again, and conquests and laws, and was crowned by the Christian Pontifex Maximus in Rome when Julius Cæsar had been dead more than eight hundred years.
The city of Pavia was still left to the Goths, and here they chose as king, a kinsman of Wittich, called Totila, young, gallant, and generous. The utter incapacity and greed of Justinian's governors left the country open to him, and he traversed the whole peninsula collecting Goths again to his standard, till their kingdom was restored.
So ended the second act of the Gothic tragedy. But as Vitiges had quitted Rome, so Totila deserted it, and in the spring of 547 it was entered again by Belisarius. In less than a month he restored as well as he could the part of the walls demolished, called back the inhabitants lingering in the neighbourhood, and prepared for a new attack. It was not long in coming.
'Surely not there! pursued the other, watching her. 'I was but once in Rome, and I had not been there a week when I fell sick of fever. King Theodoric knew better than to make his dwelling at Rome, and Totila will never live there. The houses are so big and so close together they scarce leave air to breathe; so old, too, they look as if they would tumble upon your head.
False reports were spread that, against the Council of Chalcedon, the Pope had condemned the persons of Theodoret and Ibas, and had gone against the decrees of his predecessors. The Pope, after the death of the empress Theodora, on the 28th June, 548, had continued by the emperor's wish at Constantinople, especially since Totila had retaken Rome in 549.
State of the Roman empire under Zeno Theodoric king of the Ostrogoths Character of Theodoric Changes in the Roman empire New languages New names Theodoric dies Belisarius in Italy Totila takes Rome Narses destroys the Goths New form of Government in Italy Narses invites the Lombards into Italy The Lombards change the form of government.
'They say she is far on the way to Constantinople, said Heliodora. 'If so, and if Bessas sent her, his craft is greater than I thought. For I have spoken with him, and' she smiled 'he seems sincere when he denied all knowledge of the maiden. Marcian still gazed at the distance. Again he spoke as if unconsciously murmuring his thoughts: 'Totila advances.
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