The Dynasty of Theodosius, Or, Eighty Years' Struggle with the Barbarians; A Series of Lectures

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... 455. Rome, and Carthage, bringing ill fortune with them like the Ark of God to the cities of the Philistines, might also witness the fall of Constantinople, sent them back to their original home on Mount Moriah, where apparently they must still have been stored up when Omar, at the head of his true believers, stormed the Holy City. Gaiseri c Gaiseric, having fully accomplished his purpose, Africa no conluest Dut plunder, returned to Carthage, laying waste on his way the shores of Campania and Captivity ruining the cities of Capua and Nola. The Empress of Eudoxia jrucoxia and her two daughters were transported to and her 0 r daughters. Carthage. The elder daughter, Eudoxia, was married to Gaiseric, s eldest son, Huneric, --a most miserable union, since she was a devoted Catholic and her husband a bitter Arian. In 472, after twenty-seven years of wedlock, she escaped from the hated land to Jerusalem, and there died, after a few months spent in religious seclusion, at the Tomb of the Saviour. The Empress Eudoxia and her other daughter, Placidia, were sent to Constantinople in 462, after seven years, captivity, in consideration of a large ransom paid by the Emperor Leo, who, though no relation of the Theodosian family, felt his dignity wounded by the detention of the widow and daughter of an Emperor in the palace of the barbarian. Further Placidia, s husband, a senator named Olybrius, was fThef one of tne 'shadow-Emperors, whose coming and dosian going marked the last twenty years of the Empire family. 0f tne West. In March, 472, he was proclaimed Augustus by Ricimer, the successor of Stilicho and Aetius in the position of 'powerful friend, of the Emperors. In October of the same year he died of dropsy, having produced no perceptible eddy in the swift downward...