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king of the Goths. Eraric, however, betrayed the Goths and secretly offered to surrender the Gothic kingdom to the
Byzantines in return for money. As a result, the Goths at Pavia offered Ildibad's nephew Totila the throne. Totila was at that point himself negotiating with the imperial commander at
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bodyguard Velas whose Gothic lover was married off to someone else by
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to "personalize" the causes of political events, and that the real reason for Uraias' murder was that the
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