erspious

Updated: April 30, 2025

When their marriage was discussed in the council of their dying father, the cold erspious Theodora refused to give an heir to the empire, but her sister Zoe presented herself a willing victim at the altar. Romanus Argyrus, a patrician of a graceful person and fair reputation, was chosen for her husband, and, on his declining that blindness or death was the second alternative.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4