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Title: A Struggle for Rome, v. 3

Author: Felix Dahn

Translator: Lily Wolffsohn

Release Date: May 15, 2010 [EBook #32377]

Language: English

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A STRUGGLE FOR ROME.

BY
FELIX DAHN.

_T R A N S L A T E D F R O M T H E G E R M A N_
BY
LILY WOLFFSOHN.

"If there be anything more powerful than Fate,
It is the courage which bears it undismayed."
GEIBEL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON.
1878.
[_All Rights Reserved._]

A STRUGGLE FOR ROME.

BOOK IV.--_Continued_.

WITICHIS.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Thanks to the precautions taken by Procopius, the trick had succeeded
completely.

At the moment in which the flag of the Goths fell and their King was
taken prisoner, they were everywhere surprised and overpowered.
In the courts of the palace, in the streets and canals of the city
and in the camp, they were surrounded by far superior numbers. A
palisade of lances met their sight on all sides. Almost without an
exception the paralysed Goths laid down their arms. The few who offered
resistance--the nearest associates of the King--were struck down.

Witichis himself, Duke Guntharis, Earl Wisand, Earl Markja, and the
leaders of the army who were taken prisone