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The young Theodosius, while living in Constantinople, was brought up by his own sister Pulcheria, being carefully nurtured and educated. with no one rising up against them for fear of the Persian king, Isdigerdes. For Arcadius, when he died, wrote in his will that Isdigerdes was to be guardian of his own son, who was still a child, as has been said; who, when the will was brought to him, sent Antiochus, the most honored of his eunuchs, to be guardian and protector of the emperor Theodosius, advising by letter the magistrates to submit to their emperor; and if they should not do so, threatening them that he himself would come to avenge the boy. For him, therefore, now having begun to reach adolescence, his sister 101 Pulcheria betroths Eudocia from Athens, who had surpassing beauty, and had partaken of all manner of wisdom. She was the daughter of a certain philosopher Leontius hailing from Athens, and she was named Athenais. He, knowing from his learning that his daughter was destined to be splendidly fortunate, when making his will left his estate to his sons; there were two, Valerius and Genesius; but to his daughter he instructed that only one hundred gold coins be given, writing that her fortune would be enough for her. When her relatives appropriated her paternal inheritance, Athenais demanded her own legal share; and she begged her brothers not to act according to their father's will, as it was unjust. But they even drove her from her father's house. Therefore, her maternal aunt received her and went up to Constantinople, and they entreated Pulcheria, explaining the matter. And she, seeing the maiden was very beautiful and young, asked if she was still a virgin; and learning this, she baptizes her, as she was still uninitiated, and having renamed her Eudocia, she joins her in marriage to her brother Theodosius and crowns her with a diadem and calls her Augusta. And having married her, Theodosius gets rid of Antiochus, who was the most powerful of the imperial 102 eunuchs and stirred up everything, wielding power, not just influencing it. and thus Antiochus is removed from the office of praepositus, and all his property is taken away; and he himself is tonsured as a cleric in the church in Chalcedon of the all-praised martyr Euphemia and dies not long after. But the empress Eudocia summons her brothers and being in no way angry with them, but rather expressing her thanks, since she would not have obtained the empire if she had not been driven out by them and for this reason had traveled to Constantinople, she made Genesius prefect of Illyria through the emperor, and she honored Valerius as magister. The patriarch Atticus, however, having brought a certain paralyzed Jew to the knowledge of Christ through exhortations, deemed him worthy of the divine bath and brought him forth healthy from the font. He also inscribed the name of the holy Chrysostom in the diptychs of the church, it not having been inscribed before; for that most pious father was both called and considered an Origenist. And when Atticus died, who for twenty years had presided over the company 103 of the faithful, Sisinnius is ordained, and having held the high priesthood for two years, he ended his life in the twenty-second year of the reign of Theodosius. And Nestorius was brought in his place, who, having been archbishop for three years, taught not to call the holy virgin Mary Theotokos, dogmatizing that Christ was a mere man and talking nonsense that the son of God dwelt in him as in one of the prophets, and dividing him into two, he insisted that the Word of God had not taken flesh from the pure blood of the Mother of God, but that the son of God and Word was one, and Christ another, made a son by position and deified by grace. And having learned these things, those presiding over the other patriarchal thrones, Celestine of Rome, Cyril of Alexandria, John of Antioch, Juvenal of Jerusalem, reported to the sovereign Theodosius and Pulcheria, asking that a synod be assembled and that the things from the

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Ὁ δὲ μικρὸς Θεοδόσιος ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει διάγων παρὰ τῆς οἰκείας ἀνήγετο ἀδελφῆς τῆς Πουλχερίας ἐπιμελῶς τρεφόμενός τε καὶ παιδευόμενος. μηδενὸς ἐπανισταμένου αὐτοῖς φόβῳ τοῦ τῶν Περσῶν βασιλεύοντος Ἰσδιγέρδου. ὁ γὰρ Ἀρκάδιος τελευτῶν ἐπίτροπον τοῦ οἰκείου υἱοῦ, παιδὸς ἔτι, ὡς εἴρηται, ὄντος, ἔγραψεν ἐν διαθήκαις τὸν Ἰσδιγέρδην· ὃς τῆς διαθήκης κομισθείσης αὐτῷ ἔστειλεν Ἀντίοχον τῶν παρ' αὐτῷ εὐνούχων τὸν ἐντιμότερον, φύλακα τοῦ βασιλέως Θεοδοσίου καὶ κηδεμόνα ἐσόμενον, παραινέσας διὰ γραμμάτων τοὺς ἄρχοντας ὑπείκειν τῷ σφετέρῳ βασιλεῖ· εἰ δὲ μὴ οὕτω ποιοῖεν, ἀπειλήσας αὐτοῖς αὐτὸς ἐπιστῆναι εἰς ἐκδίκησιν τοῦ παιδός. Τούτῳ τοίνυν ἤδη τελεῖν ἠργμένῳ εἰς μείρακας ἡ ἀδελφὴ 101 Πουλχερία μνηστεύεται τὴν ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν Εὐδοκίαν, κάλλους μὲν ἔχουσαν περιττῶς, σοφίας δὲ μετασχοῦσαν παντοδαπῆς. ἣ θυγάτηρ μὲν ἦν Λεοντίου τινὸς φιλοσόφου Ἀθήνηθεν ὡρμημένου, Ἀθηναῒς δ' ὠνομάζετο. ὃς γνοὺς ἐξ ἐπιστήμης εὐτυχῆσαι μέλλουσαν τὴν θυγατέρα λαμπρῶς, διατιθέμενος τὴν μὲν περιουσίαν αὐτοῦ τοῖς υἱοῖς καταλέλοιπε· δύο δ' ἦσαν Οὐαλλέριος καὶ Γενέσιος· τῇ δὲ θυγατρὶ ἑκατὸν χρυσίνους μόνους δοθῆναι ἐπέσκηψε, γράψας ἀρκεῖν αὐτῇ τὴν τύχην αὐτῆς. τῶν γοῦν συγγόνων αὐτῆς σφετερισαμένων τὴν πατρικὴν οὐσίαν ἡ Ἀθηναῒς νόμιμον τὸ οἰκεῖον ἀπῄτει λάχος· καὶ ἠξίου τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς μὴ κατὰ τὰς τοῦ πατρὸς διαθήκας ἀδίκους οὔσας ποιεῖν. οἱ δὲ καὶ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτὴν ἐξῶσαν τῆς πατρικῆς. δεξαμένη τοίνυν αὐτὴν ἡ πρὸς μητρὸς θεία ἀνελήλυθεν εἰς Κωνσταντινούπολιν, καὶ τῆς Πουλχερίας ἐδέοντο, διηγούμεναι τὴν ὑπόθεσιν. ἰδοῦσα δ' ἐκείνη τὴν κόρην περικαλλῆ καὶ νεάζουσαν ἤρετο εἰ ἀπείρατος ἔτι ἀνδρός ἐστι· καὶ γνοῦσα τοῦτο βαπτίζει αὐτὴν ἔτι οὖσαν ἀμύητον καὶ Εὐδοκίαν μετονομάσασα τῷ ἀδελφῷ ταύτην Θεοδοσίῳ συζεύγνυσι καὶ διαδήματι ταινιοῖ καὶ Αὐγούσταν καλεῖ. Γήμας δὲ ταύτην ὁ Θεοδόσιος τὸν Ἀντίοχον, ὃς τῶν βα102 σιλικῶν εὐνούχων ὑπῆρχεν ὁ κράτιστος καὶ πάντα συνεκύκα δυναστεύων, οὐ παραδυναστεύων, ἀποσκευάζεται. καὶ οὕτως παραλύεται ὁ Ἀντίοχος τῆς τοῦ πραιποσίτου τιμῆς, ἀφαιρεῖται δὲ καὶ πᾶσαν τῆν ὕπαρξιν· αὐτὸς δὲ κείρεται κληρικὸς εἰς τὸν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ναὸν τῆς πανευφήμου μάρτυρος Εὐφημίας καὶ θνήσκει μετ' οὐ πολύ. Ἡ δὲ βασιλὶς Εὐδοκία μετακαλεῖται τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ μηδὲν αὐτοῖς μηνίσασα, ἀλλὰ χάριτας μᾶλλον ὁμολογήσασα, ὡς οὐκ ἂν τυχοῦσα τῆς βασιλείας, εἰ μὴ παρ' αὐτῶν ἐξώσθη καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν πεπόρευτο, τὸν μὲν Γενέσιον ἔπαρχον τῶν Ἰλλυριῶν διὰ τοῦ βασιλέως πεποίηκε, τὸν δὲ Οὐαλλέριον ἐτίμησε μάγιστρον. Ὁ μέντοι πατριάρχης Ἀττικὸς Ἰουδαῖόν τινα παράλυτον εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ παραινέσεων ἀγαγὼν τοῦ θείου λουτροῦ κατηξίωσε καὶ ὑγιῆ ἐκ τῆς κολυμβήθρας ἐξήγαγεν. οὗτος καὶ τὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ Χρυσοστόμου ὄνομα ἐν τοῖς τῆς ἐκκλησίας διπτύχοις ἐνέγραψε, μὴ πρότερον ἐγγραφέν· Ὠριγενιαστὴς γὰρ ὁ εὐσεβέστατος ἐκεῖνος πατὴρ καὶ ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ἐνομίζετο. θανόντος δὲ Ἀττικοῦ, ὃς εἴκοσιν ἔτη τοῦ τῶν πιστῶν προέστη 103 συστήματος, χειροτονεῖται Σισίννιος καὶ ἐπὶ δύο ἔτη τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην κατεσχηκὼς τὴν ζωὴν ἐξεμέτρησε κατὰ τὸ εἰκοστὸν δεύτερον ἔτος τῆς βασιλείας Θεοδοσίου. καὶ ἀντεισήχθη Νεστόριος, ὃς ἐπὶ τρισὶν ἀρχιερατεύσας ἐνιαυτοῖς ἐδίδασκε τὴν ἁγίαν παρθένον Μαρίαν θεοτόκον μὴ λέγειν, ψιλὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν Χριστὸν δογματίζων καὶ αὐτῷ ἐνοικῆσαι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ φλυαρῶν ὡς ἑνὶ τῶν προφητῶν, καὶ εἰς δύο διαιρῶν αὐτὸν οὐ σάρκα λαβεῖν ἐκ τῶν ἁγνῶν αἱμάτων τῆς θεομήτορος τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον ἀπισχυρίζετο, ἀλλὰ ἄλλον μὲν εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ λόγον, ἄλλον δὲ τὸν Χριστὸν θέσει υἱοποιηθέντα καὶ χάριτι θεωθέντα. ταῦτα δὲ μαθόντες οἱ τῶν λοιπῶν πατριαρχικῶν προεστῶτες θρόνων, ὁ τῆς Ῥώμης Κελεστῖνος, Κύριλλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρείας, Ἰωάννης Ἀντιοχείας, Ἰουβενάλιος Ἱεσολύμων, ἀναφέρουσι πρὸς τὸν ἄνακτα Θεοδόσιον καὶ τὴν Πουλχερίαν, αἰτούμενοι σύνοδον ἀθροισθῆναι καὶ γυμνασθῆναι τὰ παρὰ τοῦ