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Tufa came to Faventia,A town of Gallia Cispadana on the via Aenmilia, modern Faenza. and with the army with which he had been sent besieged Odoacar. The latter left Ravenna and came to Faventia, where Tufa handed over to him the high officers of the patrician Theodoric, who were put in irons and taken to Ravenna.
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The consulship of Faustus and Longinus.490. When these were consuls, King Odoacar marched out from Cremona and went to Mediolanum. Then the Visigoths came to the help of Theodoric, and a battle was fought on the 11th of August on the bank of the river Addua,A large river of Gallia Transpadana, flowing through Lake Larius (Como) into the Po, modern Adda. where many fell on both sides; Pierius, commander of the household troops, was slain, and Odoacar fled to Ravenna. The patrician Theodoric soon followed him, came to the Pine Grove,See § 37, note 3. and made a camp there; then he kept Odoacar in a state of siege for three years in Ravenna, where the value of a modius of wheat rose to the price of six gold-pieces.See Amm. xx. 4, 18, note 5. And Theodoric sent Festus, the head of the senate,That is, prefect of the city. as an envoy to the emperor Zeno, hoping to be invested by him with the royal robe.
