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Excerpt from Procopius, Vol. 5 of 7: With an English Translation; History of the Wars, Books VII (Continued) And VIII As soon as the emperor saw Belisarius returned to Byzantium, he began to make plans for sending another commander with an army against the Groths and Totila. And if he had actually carried out this idea, I believe that, with Rome still under his power, and the soldiers in the city saved for him and enabled to unite with the relieving force from Byzantium, he would have overcome his opponents in the war. But in fact, after first selecting Liberius, one of the patri eiaus from Rome, and ordering him to make himself ready, he later, perhaps because some other business claimed his attention, lost interest in the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.