ne of the ways in which Rome ensured peace with potential enemies which is (perhaps unsurprisingly) not emphasised in the sources, was by paying them off. F2). In 441 another payment was made and a further 1,000lb per year was agreed - an increase from the 700lb agreed in 435. In 443 another 6,000lb was paid and the yearly tribute was now 2,100lb. Procopius even suggests that Attila turning aside from Italy in 452 was achieved through the payment of a tribute ( 3.4.29) - he is the only historian to mention it, however. Such payments continued - as late as the emperor Glycerius (r. 473-474) an Ostrogothic invasion of Italy led by King Videmir (r. 469474) was diverted by being paid off with 2,000 .
