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Constantinople. As the fighting was mainly in the north, the young Gregory probably saw little of it. Rome was sacked and vacated by Totila in 546, destroying most of its population, but in 549 he invited those who were still alive to return to the empty and ruined streets. It has been hypothesized that young Gregory and his parents retired during that intermission to their Sicilian estates, to return in 549. The war

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