Their eyes met for an instant.
'Who can be assured,' asked Heliodora thoughtfully, 'that Totila will triumph?
They say the Patricius will come again.' 'Too late.

Not even Belisarius can undo the work of Alexandros and these devouring captains.

From end to end of Italy, the name of the Greeks is abhorred; that of Totila is held in honour.

He will renew the kingdom of Theodoric.' Marcian saw straight before him the aim of all his intrigue.

It was an aim unselfish, patriotic.