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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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from Genseric that no blood should be shed, and thatthe city should not be set on fire. Further, that no one shouldbe induced by torture to give up gold and jewels.2 67. The sack lasted a fortnight, and was rendered worse by thedeliberation and ruthless precision with which it was carried out.3 1 Prosper. Aquitan., Chronico?i, ed. Mommsen, p. 484: Egressum extra urbanprincipem et ludo gestationis intentum i?iopinatis ictibus confoderunt.—Additamcuta ad Prospemm Hav7iiensia, ed. MOMMSEN, p. 303: in campo Martio pro tribunali in sextoad duos lauros reside7item At the point called ad duos /auros Helenas Mausoleum,now called Torre Pignattara, stood, inside the grounds of one of the Imperial villas. 2 PROSP., Ckron.y ed. Mommsen, ibid.: ut ab igJii tamen et caede atque suppliciisabstineretur? Victor Tonnenensis, ed. Mommsen, p. 186. ■ Procopius tells us that the barbarians went about their work, Secura ct liberascrutatione\ the Chronica gallica adds: sine ferro etigne (ibid., p. 484.)
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no. 67) GENSERIC 97 All the valuables still preserved in the mansions, privatehouses, churches, or deserted temples, had to be helplesslyhanded over to the plunderers. The Imperial residence on thePalatine was rifled even down to the copper cooking-utensils.Statues of precious metal, standing in the squares or public build-ings, which the Goths in their haste had overlooked, or whichhad been subsequently replaced, fell wholesale into the hands ofthe Vandal crew. Genseric kept a keen eye upon all artistictreasures, for the barbarian cherished visions of a civilisedstate in his African dominions, and was desirous of deckingCarthage with the masterpieces of foreign genius. Aided bythe Moors, his warriors dragged the booty to the numerousvessels which thronged the Tiber, and which later on wereto sail down the river to Portus, and thence across the seato Africa. They even mounted the roof of the magnificent Temple ofJove on the Capitol, and carried off half of the bronze-gilt tiles.These

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