<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(546)" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sack of Rome (546)">Siege of Rome</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ostrogoths">Ostrogoths</a> under king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totila" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Totila">Totila</a> plunder the city, by bribing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> garrison.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_17#cite_note-2" id="mwHA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGibbon2005">Gibbon, Edward (2005). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9xriVJrENcMC" id="mwBx8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwByA">The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i></a>. New York: Modern Library. p.<span id="mwByE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>752. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwByM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780345478849" id="mwByQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780345478849"><bdi id="mwByU">9780345478849</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwByY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=752&amp;rft.pub=Modern+Library&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=9780345478849&amp;rft.aulast=Gibbon&amp;rft.aufirst=Edward&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9xriVJrENcMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+17"></span></span>