These hostages were dismissed in safety; and their grateful zeal at length subdued the obstinacy of their countrymen.

[47] [Footnote 42: The item of Procopius (Goth.l.iv.c.

35) is evidently the Sarnus.

The text is accused or altered by the rash violence of Cluverius (l.iv.c.3.p.

1156:) but Camillo Pellegrini of Naples (Discorsi sopra la Campania Felice, p.