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56 POMPEIANA.
Under Theodoric, 512, we find the
destructive effects to have been so severe,
that the taxes were remitted to the people
of Campania \ The exhalation alone was
so thick2 and black, as to involve the
country in darkness, while the noise and
continued tremor excited universal terror.
The cinders covered the transmarine pro-
vinces ; clouds of sandy dust and fine
ashes, poured with the force and impetus
of mighty torrents, overwhelming the
country to the tops of the trees, and every
where converting the verdure of nature
into the dreary aridity of the desert.
In 556, Justinian the Great. The
mountain uttered terrifying sounds, to the
great alarm of the people; but no erup-
tion took place3.
685 or 686. The country for thirty
miles round was shaken by earthquake,
and the explosions were attended by vast
1 Cassiodorus, lib. iv. epist. 50.
* Sigonius. Procopius.
Under Theodoric, 512, we find the
destructive effects to have been so severe,
that the taxes were remitted to the people
of Campania \ The exhalation alone was
so thick2 and black, as to involve the
country in darkness, while the noise and
continued tremor excited universal terror.
The cinders covered the transmarine pro-
vinces ; clouds of sandy dust and fine
ashes, poured with the force and impetus
of mighty torrents, overwhelming the
country to the tops of the trees, and every
where converting the verdure of nature
into the dreary aridity of the desert.
In 556, Justinian the Great. The
mountain uttered terrifying sounds, to the
great alarm of the people; but no erup-
tion took place3.
685 or 686. The country for thirty
miles round was shaken by earthquake,
and the explosions were attended by vast
1 Cassiodorus, lib. iv. epist. 50.
* Sigonius. Procopius.