Europe, 476-918Macmillan, 1893 - 532 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 18–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 82
... Witiges , an elderly warrior of respectable character , who had won credit in the old wars of Theodoric . The dethroned king fled away to seek refuge at Ravenna , but a private enemy pursued him and cut his throat ' like a sheep ' long ...
... Witiges , an elderly warrior of respectable character , who had won credit in the old wars of Theodoric . The dethroned king fled away to seek refuge at Ravenna , but a private enemy pursued him and cut his throat ' like a sheep ' long ...
Էջ 83
... Witiges had settled matters with the Franks by paying them 130,000 gold solidi and ceding his Transalpine dominions in Provence . After marrying Mata- swintha , the sister of the late king Athalaric , and the last scion of the house of ...
... Witiges had settled matters with the Franks by paying them 130,000 gold solidi and ceding his Transalpine dominions in Provence . After marrying Mata- swintha , the sister of the late king Athalaric , and the last scion of the house of ...
Էջ 84
... Witiges was so broken that he never again tried a general assault . He relied instead on a blockade , but , though he inflicted great misery on the garrison , and still more on the populace , he never closed the roads or the river ...
... Witiges was so broken that he never again tried a general assault . He relied instead on a blockade , but , though he inflicted great misery on the garrison , and still more on the populace , he never closed the roads or the river ...
Էջ 85
... Witiges would probably have done well to raise the siege , and throw on Belisarius , whose army was still very small , the burden of taking the offensive . Instead of doing this he lay obstinately in his camp for a year and nine days ...
... Witiges would probably have done well to raise the siege , and throw on Belisarius , whose army was still very small , the burden of taking the offensive . Instead of doing this he lay obstinately in his camp for a year and nine days ...
Էջ 86
... Witiges drew back to Ravenna , and allowed the Romans to overrun the province of Æmilia , and even to cross the Po , and raise an insurrection in the great city of Milan . There now followed a long pause : Belisarius found that Narses ...
... Witiges drew back to Ravenna , and allowed the Romans to overrun the province of Æmilia , and even to cross the Po , and raise an insurrection in the great city of Milan . There now followed a long pause : Belisarius found that Narses ...
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