A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: Consisting of Sketches of All Women Who ...
A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: Consisting of Sketches of All Women Who ...
Henry Gardiner Adams
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In her progress through the East, she pronounced, from a throne of gold and gems, an eloquent oration to the Senate of Antioch, to whom she declared her intention of enlarging the walls of the city, and assisting in the restoration of the public baths. For this purpose she allotted two hundred pounds of gold. Her alms and munifi- itized by Google 286 EUD. cence in the Holy Land exceeded that of the great Helena. Sho returned to Constantinople, covered with honours, and laden with pious relics. ...Ambition now awoke in the heart of Eudocia; aspiring to the government of the empire, she contended for power with the prin- cess, her benefactress, whom she sought to supplant in the confi- dence of the emperor. But, in 445, an unlucky accident exposed her to the emperor's jealousy. He had given iier an apple of ex- traoixlinary size, which she sent to Paulinus, whom she esteemed on account of his learning. Paulinus, not knowing whence it came, presented it to the emperor, who soon after asked the empress what she had done with it.
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