The brothers divide their forces in Samnium…

553 CE

The brothers divide their forces in Samnium (southern Italy).

Lothair goes down the east coast, then returns to the north, to winter in the Po Valley.

Buccelin follows the west coast to the very toe of the boot into Calabria, where he spends the winter—his army being seriously wasted by attrition and disease.

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