[Footnote 13: During the long exile, and after the death of
Vigilius, the Roman church was governed, at first by the
archdeacon, and at length (A. D 655) by the pope Pelagius,
who was not thought guiltless of the sufferings of his
predecessor. See the original lives of the popes under the
name of Anastasius, (Muratori, Script. Rer. Italicarum, tom.
iii. P. i. p. 130, 131,) who relates several curious
incidents of the sieges of Rome and the wars of Italy.]