7, 8.) The 2363 do not take an English mile.] [Footnote 69: Belisarius was reproved by Pope Silverius for the massacre.

He repeopled Naples, and imported colonies of African captives into Sicily, Calabria, and Apulia, (Hist.Miscell.l.xvi.in Muratori, tom.i.p.106, 107.)] [Footnote 70: Beneventum was built by Diomede, the nephew of Meleager (Cluver.tom.ii.p.1195, 1196.) The Calydonian hunt is a picture of savage life, (Ovid, Metamorph.l.

viii.) Thirty or forty heroes were leagued against a hog: the brutes (not the hog) quarrelled with lady for the head.] The faithful soldiers and citizens of Naples had expected their deliverance from a prince, who remained the inactive and almost indifferent spectator of their ruin.

Theodatus secured his person within the walls of Rome, whilst his cavalry advanced forty miles on the Appian way, and encamped in the Pomptine marshes; which, by a canal of nineteen miles in length, had been recently drained and converted into excellent pastures.

[71] But the principal forces of the Goths were dispersed in Dalmatia, Venetia, and Gaul; and the feeble mind of their king was confounded by the unsuccessful event of a divination, which seemed to presage the downfall of his empire.