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Updated: May 17, 2025
Once indeed he expressed a faint inclination to converse with the eloquent and learned Eunomius, who lived in retirement at a small distance from Constantinople. But the dangerous interview was prevented by the prayers of the empress Flaccilla, who trembled for the salvation of her husband; and the mind of Theodosius was confirmed by a theological argument, adapted to the rudest capacity.
The statues of Theodosius, of his father, of his wife Flaccilla, of his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, were insolently thrown down from their pedestals, broken in pieces, or dragged with contempt through the streets; and the indignities which were offered to the representations of Imperial majesty, sufficiently declared the impious and treasonable wishes of the populace.
Theodosius hesitated, and even consented to see the heresiarch Eunomius, who was then living near Constantinople. The Nicenes took alarm, and the Empress Flaccilla urged her husband on the path of persecution. Thus was Arianism put down, as it had been set up, by the civil power. Nothing now remained but to clear away the disorders which the strife had left behind.
Gildo was duly rewarded. He was finally military commander, or Count, of Africa, and his daughter Salvina was united in marriage to a nephew of the empress Ælia Flaccilla. But the faith of the Moors was as the faith of Carthaginians. Gildo refused to send aid to Theodosius in his expedition against Eugenius.
Eudoxia | | | | | + THEODOSIUS II | | | m. Eudocia | | | | | | | + Eudoxia | | | | m. VALENTINIAN III | | | | | | | + Flaccilla | | | | | + Pulcheria | | | m. MARCIAN | | | | | + Three other daughters | | | + HONORIUS | | m. Maria, daughter of Stilicho | | | + Placidia m. | 1, Adolphus; | 2, CONSTANTIUS | | | + VALENTINIAN III, | | m.
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