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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...repeated, "O Lord, be merciful to your servant." "Pelagius," said Totila, with an insulting smile, "your pride now condescends to become a suppliant." "I am a suppliant," replied the prudent archdeacon; "God has now made us your subjects, and, as your subjects, we are entitled to your clemency." At his humble prayer the lives of the Romans were spared, and the maids and matrons preserved inviolate from the passions of the brutal soldiers. But they were compensated by the freedom of pillage. The houses of the senators were plundered without mercy; and the sons and daughters of Roman consuls, tasting the misery they had once spurned or relieved, wandered in tattered garments through the streets, and begged their bread before the gates of their own mansions. Against the city he was inexorable. A third part of the walls had been already demolished by his command; fire and engines were ready to consume or subvert the most stately works of antiquity; and the world was astonished at the decree he issued, that Rome should be changed into "a pasture for cattle!" Belisarius, on hearing this, addressed him a letter, in which he observed, " That if Totila had conquered, he ought, for his own sake, to preserve a city which was his by right of conquest, and would, at the same time, be the most beautiful one in his dominions. That it would be his own loss if he destroyed it, and redound to his utter dishonour. For Rome, having been raised to so great a grandeur and majesty by the virtue and industry of former ages, posterity would consider him as a common enemy of mankind in depriving them of such an example and living representation of their ancestors." In consequence of this letter, Totila permitted hi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150836527
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150836520
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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