With the remainder of his forces he marched into Lucania and Apulia, and occupied on the summit of Mount Garganus [14] one of the camps of Hannibal.

[15] The senators were dragged in his train, and afterwards confined in the fortresses of Campania: the citizens, with their wives and children, were dispersed in exile; and during forty days Rome was abandoned to desolate and dreary solitude.

[16] [Footnote 13: During the long exile, and after the death of Vigilius, the Roman church was governed, at first by the archdeacon, and at length (A.D 655) by the pope Pelagius, who was not thought guiltless of the sufferings of his predecessor.

See the original lives of the popes under the name of Anastasius, (Muratori, Script.Rer.Italicarum, tom.iii.

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i.p.130, 131,) who relates several curious incidents of the sieges of Rome and the wars of Italy.] [Footnote 14: Mount Garganus, now Monte St.Angelo, in the kingdom of Naples, runs three hundred stadia into the Adriatic Sea, (Strab .-- vi.
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