The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶126

But the gallant and accomplished youth was easily persuaded to prefer the Gothic throne before the service of Justinian; and as soon as the palace of Pavia had been purified from the Rugian usurper, he reviewed the national force of five thousand soldiers, and generously undertook the restoration of the kingdom of Italy.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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