midnight
Teja can not have gone south , he must have gone northwards , for he , no doubt , has known long since that which concerns the Prefect most : Rome is wrested from the Goths . '' Cethegus looked at him with sparkling eyes . `` I had smuggled a few clever men into the city . They excited the inhabitants to a midnight revolt . All the Goths in the city were slain ; only five hundred men escaped into the Mausoleum of Hadrian , and continue to defend it . '' Faber took courage to put in a word . `` We sent eight messengers to you .