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by surrendering to the Goths to be rid of great evils. For it was impossible for the emperor henceforth to send them any other assistance, but that with this fleet all their power and hope had been utterly destroyed. Demetrius 7.7.10 said these things, as many as Totila commanded. But the besieged, being already exceedingly hard-pressed by both famine and other want, when they saw the plight of Demetrius and heard all his words, despairing of all hope fell into wailing and helplessness, and the city was filled with much clamor and lamentation. 7.7.11 Afterwards Totila also, having called them together to the battlements, spoke as follows: "Having no cause or blame against you, men of Naples, we have now set about this siege, but so that, having freed you from most hateful masters, we might be able to repay you the kindnesses, for which, having done them for us in this war, 7.7.12 you have suffered the harshest things from the enemy. For it has come to pass that you alone of all the Italians have shown the greatest goodwill towards the nation of the Goths and have most unwillingly come under our adversaries. 7.7.13 So that now, being compelled to besiege you along with them, we are, as is likely, ashamed of your loyalty, although we do not make this 7.7.14 siege for the harm of the Neapolitans. Therefore, do not, being vexed by the hardships of the siege, think that you should be angry with the Goths. For those who hasten to benefit their friends deserve to bear no blame from them, even if they are forced to do them a favor 7.7.15 not by pleasant means. But let fear of the enemy trouble you as little as possible, nor, being moved by what has gone before, suppose that they will conquer us. For the unpredictable things of life, which come about unexpectedly by some chance, are accustomed to fall away again 7.7.16 with time. And we are so well-disposed towards you that we permit both Conon and all his soldiers to go wherever they wish, unharmed by evils, if indeed, having surrendered the city to us, they depart from here, taking all their own possessions; and nothing will prevent us from swearing an oath for these things and for the safety of the Neapolitans." 7.7.17 Totila said these things, and both the Neapolitans and all the soldiers with Conon approved. For a great necessity of famine 7.7.18 was pressing them. However, keeping faith with the emperor and still expecting that some help would come to them, they agreed to surrender the city in thirty days. 7.7.19 But Totila, wishing to drive away all their hope from the emperor, appointed a period of three months, on condition that after this they should do what had been agreed. But he insisted that before then he would not make any assault against the circuit-wall, nor use any other plot against them. 7.7.20 These things, then, were so decided. But the besieged, not waiting for the appointed day (for they were too hard-pressed by the lack of necessities), a little later received Totila and the barbarians into the city. And the winter was ending, and the eighth year was coming to a close for this war, which Procopius wrote. 7.8.1 But when Totila took Naples, he showed a philanthropy towards the captured fitting for neither an enemy 7.8.2 nor a barbarian man. For taking the Romans who were sick with famine, from whom indeed the strength of their body had already receded because of it, fearing that, coming to satiety of food suddenly, they might, as 7.8.3 was likely, choke to death, he devised the following. Having stationed guards both at the harbor and at the gates, he ordered no 7.8.4 one to go anywhere from there. And he himself, with a certain careful parsimony, provided food to all more sparingly than according to their desire, adding each day so much to the measure that there seemed to be no perception of what was being added 7.8.5 from time to time. And thus having restored their strength, and having opened the gates, he permitted each one to go wherever 7.8.6 he wished. And Conon and the soldiers with him, as many as were least pleased to remain with him, he put on ships and ordered them to sail at their discretion. And they, on the one hand, thinking that the retreat to Byzantium would bring shame upon them, to sail with all speed for Rome... 7.8.7

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Γότθοις ἐνδιδόντας μεγάλων ἀπηλλάχθαι κακῶν. ἀδύνατον γὰρ βασιλέα τὸ λοιπὸν ἄλλην σφίσιν ἐπικουρίαν πέμψαι, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῷ στόλῳ τούτῳ πᾶσαν αὐτοῖς τήν τε δύναμιν καὶ τὴν ἐλπίδα διολωλέναι. ∆ημήτριος 7.7.10 μὲν τοσαῦτα εἶπεν, ὅσα Τουτίλας ἐκέλευεν. οἱ δὲ πολιορκούμενοι τῷ τε λιμῷ ἤδη καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ ἀπορίᾳ ὑπερφυῶς πιεζόμενοι, ἐπεὶ τό τε πάθος ∆ημητρίου εἶδον καὶ τοὺς λόγους ἅπαντας ἤκουσαν, ἀπογνόντες ἐλπίδος ἁπάσης ἔς τε οἰμωγὰς καὶ ἀμηχανίαν ἐνέπιπτον, ἦν τε ἡ πόλις θορύβου πολλοῦ καὶ κωκυτοῦ ἔμπλεως. 7.7.11 Μετὰ δὲ καὶ Τουτίλας αὐτοὺς ξυγκαλέσας ἐς τὰς ἐπάλξεις ἔλεξε τοιάδε «Οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν ἢ μέμψιν ἐς «ὑμᾶς ἔχοντες, ἄνδρες Νεαπολῖται, τανῦν ἐς πολιορκίαν «τήνδε κατέστημεν, ἀλλ' ὅπως ἐχθίστων ὑμᾶς ἀπαλλά»ξαντες δεσποτῶν οἷοί τε ὦμεν τάς τε χάριτας ὑμῖν ἐκτιν»νύναι, ὧνπερ ἡμᾶς δεδρακότες ἐν τῷδε τῷ πολέμῳ 7.7.12 «τὰ χαλεπώτατα πρὸς τῶν πολεμίων πεπόνθατε. μόνους «γὰρ Ἰταλιωτῶν ὑμᾶς ἁπάντων εὔνοιάν τε τὴν μεγίστην «ἐς Γότθων τὸ ἔθνος ἐπιδεδεῖχθαι καὶ ἀκουσίους μά»λιστα ὑπὸ τοῖς ἐναντίοις γεγενῆσθαι ξυμβέβηκεν. 7.7.13 «ὥστε καὶ νῦν πολιορκεῖν ὑμᾶς ξὺν ἐκείνοις ἠναγκασ»μένοι τὸ πιστὸν ὑμῶν, ὡς τὸ εἰκὸς, αἰσχυνόμεθα, «καίπερ οὐκ ἐπὶ τῷ πονηρῷ Νεαπολιτῶν τὴν προσε7.7.14 «δρείαν ποιούμενοι. μὴ τοίνυν ἀχθόμενοι τοῖς ἐκ τῆς «πολιορκίας δεινοῖς Γότθους οἴεσθε δεῖν δι' ὀργῆς «ἔχειν. οἱ γὰρ τοὺς φίλους εὐεργετεῖν ἐπειγόμενοι «οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν εἰσὶν ἄξιοι πρὸς αὐτῶν φέρεσθαι, «κἂν μὴ διὰ τῶν πρὸς ἡδονὴν ἀναγκάζωνται τὴν πρὸς 7.7.15 «αὐτοὺς διαπράσσεσθαι χάριν. τῶν δὲ πολεμίων ὡς «ἥκιστα ὑμᾶς δέος εἰσίτω, μηδὲ τοῖς προλαβοῦσιν «ἠγμένοι κρατήσειν αὐτοὺς ἡμῶν οἴεσθε. τὰ γὰρ τοῦ «βίου παράλογα τύχῃ τινὶ παρὰ δόξαν ἐλθόντα τῷ 7.7.16 «χρόνῳ αὖθις καταρρεῖν εἴωθεν. οὕτω δὲ ὑμῖν εὖνοι «καθέσταμεν ὥστε καὶ Κόνωνα καὶ πάντας στρατιώτας «κακῶν ἀπαθεῖς ὅπη βούλοιντο συγχωροῦμεν ἰέναι, ἤν «γε τὴν πόλιν ἐνδόντες ἡμῖν ἐνθένδε ἀπαλλάσσοιντο, «πάντα τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν ἔχοντας· καὶ ὑπὲρ τού»των ἡμᾶς καὶ τῆς Νεαπολιτῶν σωτηρίας ὀμεῖσθαι 7.7.17 «οὐδὲν κωλύσει.» Τουτίλας μὲν τοσαῦτα εἶπεν, ἐπῄνεσαν δὲ οἵ τε Νεαπολῖται καὶ οἱ ξὺν τῷ Κόνωνι στρατιῶται πάντες. πολλὴ γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἀνάγκη τοῦ λιμοῦ 7.7.18 ἐπίεζε. πίστιν μέντοι ἐς βασιλέα φυλάσσοντες καὶ βοήθειάν τινα ἔτι παρέσεσθαι σφίσι καραδοκοῦντες τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν ὡμολόγουν ἐνδώσειν τὴν πόλιν. 7.7.19 Τουτίλας δὲ πᾶσαν αὐτοῖς ἐκ βασιλέως ἀνασοβεῖν ἐλπίδα ἐθέλων τριῶν μηνῶν ἔταξε χρόνον, ἐφ' ᾧ δὴ μετὰ τοῦτον τὰ ὡμολογημένα ποιήσωσι. πρότερον δὲ οὐ προσβολήν τινα κατὰ τοῦ περιβόλου ποιήσεσθαι ἰσχυρίζετο, οὐδὲ ἄλλῃ τινὶ ἐπιβουλῇ ἐς αὐτοὺς χρῆσθαι. 7.7.20 ταῦτα μὲν οὖν οὕτως ἐδέδοκτο. οἱ δὲ πολιορκούμενοι οὐκ ἀναμείναντες τὴν κυρίαν (λίαν γὰρ ἐβιάζοντο τῶν ἀναγκαίων τῇ ἀπορίᾳ) ὀλίγῳ ὕστερον τῇ πόλει Τουτίλαν τε καὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους ἐδέξαντο. καὶ ὁ χειμὼν ἔληγε, καὶ ὄγδοον ἔτος ἐτελεύτα τῷ πολέμῳ τῷδε, ὃν Προκόπιος ξυνέγραψεν. 7.8.1 Ἐπειδὴ δὲ Νεάπολιν Τουτίλας εἷλε, φιλανθρωπίαν ἐς τοὺς ἡλωκότας ἐπεδείξατο οὔτε πολεμίῳ 7.8.2 οὔτε βαρβάρῳ ἀνδρὶ πρέπουσαν. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ Ῥωμαίους λιμῷ νενοσηκότας λαβὼν, οἷς δὴ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ τοῦ σώματος ἰσχὺς ὀπίσω ἤδη ἐκεχωρήκει, δείσας μὴ βρώσεως ἐκ τοῦ αἰφνιδίου ἐς κόρον ἐλθόντες, ὡς 7.8.3 τὸ εἰκὸς, ἀποπνιγεῖεν, ἐπενόει τάδε. φυλακὰς ἔν τε τῷ λιμένι καὶ ταῖς πύλαις καταστησάμενος ἐκέλευε μη7.8.4 δένα πη ἐνθένδε ἰέναι. αὐτὸς δὲ ἅπασι μικρολογίᾳ τινὶ προμηθεῖ ἐνδεεστέρως ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὰ σιτία παρείχετο, προσεπιβάλλων ἡμέρᾳ ἑκάστῃ τοσοῦτον τοῦ μέτρου ὅσον οὐ δοκεῖν αἴσθησίν τινα τῶν ἐντι7.8.5 θεμένων ἐς ἀεὶ γίγνεσθαι. οὕτω τε αὐτοῖς ἐπιρρώσας τὴν δύναμιν καὶ τὰς πύλας ἀναπετάσας ἕκαστον ὅπη 7.8.6 βούλοιτο ἀφῆκεν ἰέναι. Κόνωνα δὲ καὶ τοὺς ξὺν αὐτῷ στρατιώτας, ὅσους δὴ αὐτοῦ μένειν ἥκιστα ἤρεσκεν, ἐς ναῦς ἐμβιβάσας πλεῖν κατ' ἐξουσίαν ἐκέλευε. καὶ οἱ μὲν αἰσχύνην σφίσι φέρειν οἰόμενοι τὴν ἐς Βυζάντιον ἀναχώρησιν, πλεῖν κατὰ τάχος ἐπὶ Ῥώμης διε7.8.7