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she swore that 'I sent it to no one,' but that she herself ate it. and the emperor commanded the apple to be brought, and he showed it to her. and he was indignant with her, suspecting that as one in love with the same Paulinus she had sent the apple to him and denied it. and for this reason the emperor Theodosius killed the same Paulinus; and the Augusta Eudocia, being grieved, as one who had been insulted, for it was known everywhere that Paulinus was slain on account of her; for he was a very handsome younger man; and the Augusta asked the emperor Theodosius to go down to the holy places for prayer; and he granted it to her. and she went down from Constantinople to Jerusalem to pray; and she built many things in Jerusalem, and she renewed the wall of Jerusalem, saying that 'On my account David the prophet said that also in your good pleasure will be 358 built the walls of Jerusalem, Lord.' and having remained there and built for herself a royal tomb, she died, and was laid in Jerusalem. and as she was about to die, she swore that she was not privy to the accusation concerning Paulinus. And the emperor Theodosius was eloquent, loved by all the people and the senate. and during his reign and that of Valentinian, Attila, of the race of the Gepids, campaigned against Rome and against Constantinople, having a multitude of many myriads, declaring through a single Gothic ambassador to Valentinian, emperor of Rome, 'My master and your master Attila has commanded you through me that you prepare for him your palace.' and likewise he declared the same things to the emperor Theodosius in Constantinople through a single Gothic ambassador. and Aetius, the first senator of Rome, having heard the excessive audacity of Attila's mad response, went to Alaric to the Gauls, who was an enemy of the Romans, and he persuaded him and brought him with him against Attila; for he had made war on many cities of Rome. and suddenly attacking him, as he was encamped near the Danube river, they cut down many thousands of them. and in the engagement Alaric, having received a wound from an arrow, died. 359 and likewise Attila also died from a hemorrhage of blood carried through his nostrils at night, while sleeping with his Hunnic concubine; which girl was also suspected of having killed him herself. Concerning which war the most wise Priscus the Thracian wrote. But others wrote that Aetius the patrician suborned his sword-bearer, and that he himself, stabbing him, killed him; and Aetius the patrician returned to Rome victorious. And the emperor Theodosius in the same times built the great church in Alexandria; which is called to this day the church of Theodosius; for he loved Cyril, the bishop of Alexandria. And at that time, having received license from the bishop, the Alexandrians burned with faggots, having murdered Hypatia the renowned philosopher, about whom great things were reported; and she was an old woman. And in his reign the island of Crete suffered from divine wrath, which had one hundred cities existing in the midst of the sea, just as the most wise Euripides set forth concerning the same island. And all its surrounding country also suffered. And in the same Crete fell the public building of the metropolis of Gortyn, that was built by Julius Caesar, having 12 distinctive vaults, and in each month one administration of vaults was provided. and the 360 public building was perfect, and the twelve vaults were heated by only one furnace; and it was a strange sight to see. and the emperor Theodosius raised up six of them, that is two sections of the public building, a summer and a winter one, when the property owners of the same city asked him. He also provided many things by way of buildings for the city and the country. And he also built in Antioch the great a great, well-lit basilica, very magnificent, being opposite the so-called Athla, which the

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ἐπωμόσατο ὅτι Οὐδενὶ αὐτὸ ἔπεμψα, ἀλλ' ὅτι αὐτὴ αὐτὸ ἔφαγε. καὶ ἐκέλευσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐνεχθῆναι τὸ μῆλον, καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτῇ αὐτό. καὶ ἠγανάκτησε κατ' αὐτῆς, ὑπονοήσας ὅτι ὡς ἐρῶσα τῷ αὐτῷ Παυλίνῳ ἔπεμψεν αὐτῷ τὸ μῆλον καὶ ἠρνήσατο. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀνεῖλε τὸν αὐτὸν Παυλῖνον ὁ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος· καὶ λυπηθεῖσα ἡ Αὔγουστα Εὐδοκία, ὡς ὑβρισθεῖσα, ἐγνώσθη γὰρ πανταχοῦ ὅτι δι' αὐτὴν ἐσφάγη ὁ Παυλῖνος· ἦν γὰρ πάνυ εὔμορφος νεώτερος· ᾐτήσατο δὲ ἡ Αὔγουστα τὸν βασιλέα Θεοδόσιον τοῦ κατελθεῖν εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους τόπους εἰς εὐχήν· καὶ παρέσχεν αὐτῇ. καὶ κατῆλθεν ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπὶ Ἱεροσόλυμα εὔξασθαι· καὶ ἔκτισεν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις πολλά, καὶ τὸ τεῖχος ἀνενέωσε τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ, εἰποῦσα ὅτι ∆ι' ἐμὲ εἶπε ∆αβὶδ ὁ προφήτης ὅτι καὶ ἐν τῇ εὐδοκίᾳ σου οἰκοδο 358 μηθήσεται τὰ τείχη Ἱερουσαλήμ, κύριε. καὶ μείνασα ἐκεῖ καὶ κτίσασα ἑαυτῇ μνῆμα βασιλικὸν ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ ἐτέθη ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις. ἐν δὲ τῷ μέλλειν αὐτὴν τελευτᾶν ἐπωμόσατο μὴ συνειδέναι τῇ κατηγορίᾳ τῆς ἕνεκεν Παυλίνου. Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος ἦν ἐλλόγιμος, παρὰ παντὸς τοῦ δήμου φιλούμενος καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ καὶ Βαλεντινιανοῦ ἐπεστράτευσε κατὰ Ῥώμης καὶ κατὰ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Ἀττιλᾶς, ἐκ τοῦ γένους τῶν Γηπέδων, πλῆθος ἔχων μυριάδων πολλῶν, δηλώσας διὰ Γότθου ἑνὸς πρεσβευτοῦ τῷ Βαλεντινιανῷ, βασιλεῖ Ῥώμης, Ἐκέλευσέ σοι δι' ἐμοῦ ὁ δεσπότης μου καὶ δεσπότης σου Ἀττιλᾶς ἵνα εὐτρεπίσῃς αὐτῷ τὸ παλάτιόν σου. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Θεοδοσίῳ βασιλεῖ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἐδήλωσε δι' ἑνὸς Γότθου πρεσβευτοῦ. καὶ ἀκηκοὼς Ἀέτιος ὁ πρῶτος συγκλητικὸς Ῥώμης τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τόλμαν τῆς ἀπονενοημένης ἀποκρίσεως Ἀττιλᾶ, ἀπῆλθε πρὸς Ἀλάριχον πρὸς τοὺς Γάλλους, ὄντα ἐχθρὸν Ῥωμαίων, καὶ προετρέψατο αὐτὸν καὶ ἤνεγκεν αὐτὸν ἅμα αὐτῷ κατὰ Ἀττιλᾶ· ἐπολέμησε γὰρ πόλεις πολλὰς τῆς Ῥώμης. καὶ ἐξαίφνης ἐπιῤῥίψαντες αὐτῷ, ὡς ἐστὶν ἀπληκεύων πλησίον τοῦ ∆ανουβίου ποταμοῦ, ἔκοψαν αὐτῶν χιλιάδας πολλάς. εἰς δὲ τὴν συμβολὴν πληγὴν λαβὼν ὁ Ἀλάριχος ἀπὸ σαγίτας ἐτελεύτη 359 σεν. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ ὁ Ἀττιλᾶς ἐτελεύτησε καταφορᾷ αἵματος διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν ἐνεχθείσῃ νυκτός, μετὰ Οὕννας παλλακίδος αὐτοῦ καθεύδων· ἥτις κόρη καὶ ὑπενοήθη ὅτι αὐτὴ αὐτὸν ἀνεῖλε. περὶ οὗ πολέμου συνεγράψατο ὁ σοφώτατος Πρίσκος ὁ Θρᾴξ. ἕτεροι δὲ συνεγράψαντο ὅτι Ἀέτιος ὁ πατρίκιος τὸν σπαθάριον αὐτοῦ ὑπενόθευσε, καὶ αὐτὸς κεντήσας ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν· καὶ ὑπέστρεψεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ ὁ πατρίκιος Ἀέτιος νικήσας. Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς χρόνοις ἔκτισε τὴν μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ· ἥτις λέγεται ἕως τοῦ νῦν ἡ Θεοδοσίου· ἐφίλει γὰρ Κύριλλον τὸν ἐπίσκοπον Ἀλεξανδρείας. Κατ' ἐκεῖνον δὲ τὸν καιρὸν παῤῥησίαν λαβόντες ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου οἱ Ἀλεξανδρεῖς ἔκαυσαν φρυγάνοις αὐθεντήσαντες Ὑπατίαν τὴν περιβόητον φιλόσοφον, περὶ ἧς μεγάλα ἐφέρετο· ἦν δὲ παλαιὰ γυνή. ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας ἡ Κρήτη νῆσος, ἥτις εἶχεν ἐν μέσῳ θαλάσσης ὑπαρχούσας πόλεις ἑκατόν, καθὼς περὶ τῆς αὐτῆς νήσου ἐξέθετο ὁ σοφώτατος Εὐριπίδης. ἔπαθε δὲ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ περίχωρος αὐτῆς. ἔπεσε δὲ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Κρήτῃ τὸ δημόσιον τῆς μητροπόλεως Γορτύνης τὸ κτισθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Καίσαρος Ἰουλίου, ἔχον ἰδιάζοντα θόλα ιβʹ, καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῳ μηνὶ μία διοίκησις θόλων παρεῖχεν. ἦν δὲ τὸ 360 δημόσιον τέλειον, ὑπὸ δὲ ἑνὸς καμινίου μόνου τὰ δώδεκα θόλα ὑπεκαίοντο· καὶ ἦν ἰδεῖν ξένον θέαμα. καὶ ἀνήγειρεν ἓξ αὐτῶν ὁ βασιλεὺς Θεοδόσιος, ὅ ἐστι δύο σχήματα τοῦ δημοσίου, θερινοῦ καὶ χειμερινοῦ, τῶν κτητόρων τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως αἰτησάντων αὐτόν. παρέσχε δὲ καὶ λόγῳ κτισμάτων ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως καὶ χώρας πολλά. Ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ βασιλικὴν διάφωτον μεγάλην, πάνυ εὐπρεπῆ, κατέναντι οὖσαν τῶν λεγομένων Ἄθλων, ἥντινα οἱ