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Justinian' s attempt to harness Rome' s holy authority had all but destroyed it. The papacy had hit its lowest point, and the city would follow. The Eastern Empire struggled to hold Italy. Within less than a generation another Germanic tribe had its sights on Rome. The Lombards marched south, first plundering, then settling. By 590, Rome was desperate and battlescarred. Rome' s aqueducts, the embodiment of imperial might, were left to crumble, the city' s vital water supplies seeping away. Impoverished and starving, its population reduced to 90, 000, the onceglorious capital was now just a beleaguered outpost on the fringes of Empire. Rome needed a new hero, and the Pope was the only and last person who could save the city. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Gregory was a superrich aristocrat who had already served as city prefect, in effect, Mayor of Rome. But the messy business of politics disgusted him and he suffered an existential crisis. |
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chá shì dīng ní dà dì jué dìng jiāng luó mǎ de shén shèng quán lì wò zài zì jǐ shǒu xīn. tā zuò dào le zhè yì diǎn, què yě huǐ le tā. cǐ shí jiào huáng de hào zhào lì diē dǎo zuì dī diǎn, jǐn jiē zhe luó mǎ zuò wéi jī dū jiào zhōng shū dì wèi bù bǎo. dōng luó mǎ dì guó shì tú zhǎng kòng yì dà lì. bú dào shí nián, yòu yí gè rì ěr màn bù luò bǎ mù guāng miáo zhǔn le luó mǎ. lún bā dì rén de jūn duì xiàng nán tuī jìn. xiān shì qiǎng lüè, jiē zhe zhù jūn. 590 nián, luó mǎ xiàn rù jué jìng, zhàn huǒ fēn fēi. luó mǎ de chéng shì guǎn dào hé dì guó quán lì de xiàng zhēng jiē bèi cuī huǐ, luó mǎ chéng de zhǔ yào gōng shuǐ xì tǒng shèn lòu qíng kuàng shí fēn yán zhòng. zhàn zhēng dǎo zhì le pín kùn hé jī è, luó mǎ de rén kǒu ruì jiǎn dào 90, 000 rén. luó mǎ, dì guó zhī dōu, yōng yǒu duō me huī huáng càn làn de guò qù, rú jīn què bèi dí jūn wéi kùn, chéng le dì guó biān yuán dǐ yù dí jūn rù qīn de qián shào. luó mǎ jí xū yīng xióng zhěng jiù, rú jīn, jiào huáng chéng le kě yǐ zhěng jiù zhè zuò chéng shì de wéi yī yī rén. luàn shì chū yīng xióng. gé lǐ gāo lì, chū shēng yú luó mǎ yí gè tè bié fù yǒu de guì zú zhī jiā, dān rèn luó mǎ shì zhǎng yī zhí. ér cǐ shí luó mǎ chéng zhōng hùn luàn rú má de zhèng zhì xiàn zhuàng róng bù xià tā, tā yǒu sǐ wáng zhī yōu. |