Vitigis besieges Rome
The anonymous continuation reports that Vitigis assembled an army and besieged Rome.
What this does and does not establish
Anonymous continuation. Rome explicitly establishes the European location. 'Tyrant' is the chronicler's characterization. The apparatus records a grammatical variant, exercitus for exercitu, without changing the reported siege.
- 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
- Second postconsulate of Belisarius; 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
Read chronicaminorasa11momm.txt, lines 8928–8987. The printed 537 heading explicitly says ITERVM POST CONSVLATVM BELISARII. Its second postconsular year after 535 maps to Julian AD 537; Marius confirms the sequence with 537, item p. c. Belesari, indiction XV at line 21316. Read the ensuing siege narrative and apparatus.
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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)
Vitigis tyrannus exercitu aggregato Romam obsidet:AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The tyrant Vitigis, having assembled an army, besieges Rome:
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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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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