Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Classics
ISBN: 2940012259813
Goodreads: 10748361
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
Published: 2011-02-27T08:00:00+00:00

King Thiudahad to the Emperor Justinian, Greetings.

Your serene highness: We send you with this letter the persons of your generals Constantianus, Perianus, and Bessas, under parole not to bear arms against us again. A similar parole was offered your general Belisarius, but he declined to accept it on grounds of his personal honor.

As continuation of this war seems unlikely to achieve any constructive result, we take the opportunity of stating the terms that we should consider reasonable for the establishment of enduring peace between us.

1. Imperial troops shall evacuate Sicily and Dalmatia forthwith.

2. An indemnity of one hundred thousand solidi in gold shall be paid us for damages done by your invading armies.

3. We shall agree never again to make war, one upon the other, without mutual consultation in advance. Details can be settled in due course.

4. We shall agree not to assist any third parties, by men, money, or munitions, which hereafter shall make war upon either of us.

5. We shall agree upon a commercial treaty to facilitate the exchange of goods between our respective realms.

This is of course a very rough outline, details of which would have to be settled by conference between our representatives. We think you will agree that these terms, or others very similar in intent, are the least that we could reasonably ask under the circumstances.

We shall anticipate the gracious favor of a reply at your serenity’s earliest convenience.

by

Martinus Paduei, Quaestor.

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