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the neglect of the Goths, but by the consequences of the war he had unleashed
over Italy.50 Whatever the results of the attention given to cities in Italy by
Theoederic and his successors, they had surely been obliterated by an incarna-
tion of the same empire whose traditions and example the king had held so
high during his reign.
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