The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . COINS OF TEIA.^ this only on condition of being allowed an unmolestedpassage out of Italy, and of receiving money for theexpenses of their journey. The Roman generals held a council to discuss thisproposal; they had had such terrible experience ofthe desperate valour of the Goths that they decidedto accept the conditions. So, in March, 553, theremnant of the defeated army set out on their north- ^ All authorities seem to agree that these are coins of Teia ; but Icannot help suspecting that they may belong to Thela
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . COINS OF TEIA.^ this only on condition of being allowed an unmolestedpassage out of Italy, and of receiving money for theexpenses of their journey. The Roman generals held a council to discuss thisproposal; they had had such terrible experience ofthe desperate valour of the Goths that they decidedto accept the conditions. So, in March, 553, theremnant of the defeated army set out on their north- ^ All authorities seem to agree that these are coins of Teia ; but Icannot help suspecting that they may belong to Thela (Thelane), theson and titular colleague of Odovacar. 312 THE RUIN OF THE OSTROGOTHS, ward march. What became of them history does notsay. Perhaps they may have found a home amongthe Franks or Alamans; perhaps they may havemade their way to the kingdom of the Visigoths inSpain. But even yet Narses had a hard struggle to undergobefore the conquest of Italy was complete. TheGothic garrisons in the cities still offered an obstinateresistance to their besiegers ; and while the em
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