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he reigned, he gave the great church in Constantinople to the Arians, and having done the same in the other cities. And he greatly oppressed the Christians in his reign. And the same Valens also made Cappadocia Secunda a province, having separated it from the first. And in his reign, Nicaea, 343 a city of Bithynia, suffered from a divine wrath, in the month of September, in the 11th indiction; and the same Valens died, having made a journey to Adrianople of Thrace, having gone to build a manufactory there, a house before the city in another field; the building of the field having caught fire from an unknown cause and the stairs having caught fire during the night, he perished with his chamberlains and sword-bearers, being 49 years old. And after the reign of Valens, the most pious Gratian, the elder son of Valentinian, reigned, in the consulship of Ausonianus and Hermogenes; and he reigned 17 years. And he was quiet and respectful. And in his reign, Theon the most wise philosopher taught and interpreted the astronomical works and the writings of Hermes Trismegistus and of Orpheus. And in the sixth year of the reign of the same Gratian, Theodosius the Spaniard was proclaimed emperor by him, having married Placidia, the sister of Gratian. 344 And before the reign of Gratian, Valerianus died, emperor of Rome, the son of Valentinian, the elder brother of Gratian, having reigned in Rome for very few years; and in his place, his kinsman Valentinian became emperor in Rome. And the emperor Gratian, having fallen ill with a disease of the spleen, remained sick for a long time; and as he was going up in the Hippodrome of Constantinople to watch, through the Cochlias at the gate called of Decimus, he was slain and died, being 28 years old. And after the reign of Gratian, the senate of Constantinople proclaimed Theodosius emperor, as being of their lineage from the country of Spain. And having been proclaimed by the senate, the most divine Theodosius the Spaniard, the Great, the brother-in-law of Gratian, reigned for 17 years. And he was a Christian and prudent and pious and vigorous. And as soon as he reigned, he immediately restored the churches to the orthodox, everywhere making sacred decrees and having driven out the Arians. And the same emperor crowned his two sons, whom he had from his first wife, Galla, and he made Arcadius emperor in Constantinople, and Honorius in Rome. And the same emperor Theodosius destroyed all the temples of the Hellenes to the ground. And he also demolished the temple of Heliopolis, the great and renowned one called the Trilithon, and made it a church for the Christians. And likewise he also made the temple of Damascus a church of the Christians; and 345 he made many other temples into churches, and the affairs of the Christians increased more in his reign. And the same emperor also separated Phoenicia Libanensis from the coastal one and made it a province, giving the rights of a metropolis and an ordinary governor to the city of Emesa. And the same emperor, also dividing Pontus, made a province, which he called Haemimontus. And in his reign, Balbinus the Isaurian became a tyrant, and he devastated the city of Anazarbus and Irenopolis and Castabala, cities of Cilicia. And having been captured by Rufus the general, he was executed. And the same emperor Theodosius, at the same time, having demolished the three temples that were in Constantinople in the formerly so-called Acropolis, made the temple of Helios a courtyard of buildings, and donated it to the great church of Constantinople; which courtyard is called of Helios until now; and the temple of Artemis he made a public gaming-house for those who play dice; which place is called the Temple until now; and the nearby street the Stag. and the temple of Aphrodite

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