Goths appoint Totila king
The anonymous continuation reports under 542 that the Goths installed Totila as king after killing Erarius.
What this does and does not establish
Anonymous continuation. The following passage explicitly locates Totila's activity in Italy, including the Po and Faventia, establishing Europe. The apparatus says witness R omits the 542 entry; this is a transmission omission, not an alternative date.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 542, after Basil's consulship, year two; month unspecified
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
In chronicaminorasa11momm.txt, read lines 9048–9098 and 9129–9157. The explicit 542 heading at 9059, 'POST CONSVLATVM BASILH ANNO SECYNDO', governs the clause at 9083 across the page break; the next heading is 543 at 9093. Victor independently prints 542 with Basil's year two at 18856; Marius uses first postconsular year, indiction V, at 21439.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Anonymous continuation of Marcellinus
Anonymous continuator
Quoted text (Latin)
Gothi Erario rege occiso Totilam in regnum manciparunt.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The Goths, King Erarius having been killed, installed Totila in the kingship.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Anonymous continuation of Marcellinus, Mommsen 1894, MGH AA 11, Internet Archive OCR; project working translation.
Exact source version
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