theodosian

Updated: May 14, 2025

Here he was joined by Anicius Olybrius, who had married Placidia, the younger daughter of Valentinian and Eudoxia, through whom he claimed the throne, as representative of the Theodosian line. Ricimer, after a fierce contest with Anthemius, burst into the Aurelian gate at the head of troops all of German blood and Arian belief, massacring and plundering all but two of the fourteen regions.

T. W. (Thomas William) Allies - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I

The Theodosian creed provided that the actors were not to have the sacraments administered to them save when death was imminent, and then only that, in case of recovery, their calling should be renounced. He promises them a tragedy of their own when, in the day of Judgment, they shall be consigned to everlasting suffering."

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime

After the failure of the Theodosian life, the choice of Pulcheria and of the senate might be justified in some measure by the characters of Martin and Leo, but the latter of these princes confirmed and dishonored his reign by the perfidious murder of Aspar and his sons, who too rigorously exacted the debt of gratitude and obedience.

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

Constantine's successors soon forbade pagan practices and began to issue laws which gave the Christian clergy important privileges. In the last book of the Theodosian Code, a great collection of the laws of the Empire, which was completed in 438, all the imperial decrees are to be found which relate to the Christian Church and the clergy.

James Harvey Robinson - An Introduction to the History of Western Europe