Historic girls
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [Afterward known as "Fulcheria A ugusta Empress of the East " A.D. 413. HERE was trouble and confusion in the imperial palace of Theodosius the Little, Emperor of the East. Now, this Theodosius was called ...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [Afterward known as "Fulcheria A ugusta Empress of the East " A.D. 413. HERE was trouble and confusion in the imperial palace of Theodosius the Little, Emperor of the East. Now, this Theodosius was called " the Little" because, W though he bore the name of his mighty grandfather, Theodosius the Great, emperor of both the East and West, he had as yet done nothing worthy any other title than that of " the Little," or " the Child." For Theodosius emperor though he was called, was only a boy of twelve, and not a very bright boy at that. His father, Arcadius the emperor, and his mother, Eudoxia the empress, were dead ; and in the great palace at Constantinople, in this year of grace, 413, Theodosius, the boy emperor, and histhree sisters, Pulcheria, Marina, and Arcadia, alone were left to uphold the tottering dignity and the empty name of the once mighty Empire of the East, which their great ancestors, Constantine and Theodosius, had established and strengthened. And now there was confusion in the imperial palace; for word came in haste from the Dacian border that Ruas, king of the Huns, sweeping down from the east, was ravaging the lands along the Upper Danube, and with his host of barbarous warn'ors was defeating the legions and devastating the lands of the empire. The wise Anthemius, prefect of the east, and governor or guardian of the young emperor, was greatly disturbed by the tidings of this new invasion. Already he had repelled at great cost the first advance of these terrible Huns, and had quelled into a sort of half submission the Jess ferocious followers of Ulpin the Thracian; but now he knew that his armies along the Danube were in no condition to withstand the hordes of Huns, that, pouring in from distant Siberia, were following the lead of Ruas, their kin...
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