 A message from Justinian arrived, a light peace-deal, offering Witigis kingship over the territory north of the Po as the emperor’s vassal.As commander in the field Belisarius had to ratify it for it to go into effect but he refused to do so.The Gothic nobility was afraid of a peace-deal with the Byzantines as they would most likely be deported to the east of the empire, forced to fight the Sasanians.