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	CHAPTER - EMPERORS ARCADIUS, EUTROPIUS, THEODOSIUS II
		Gainas bowed with reverence at the feet of the emperor, whilst he required the sacrifice of Aurelian and Saturninus, two ministers of consular rank; and their naked necks were exposed, by the haughty rebel, to the edge of the sword, till he condescended to grant them a precarious and disgraceful respite.
		Every quarter of Constantinople was filled with tumult and disorder; and the Barbarians gazed with such ardor on the rich shops of the jewellers, and the tables of the bankers, which were covered with gold and silver, that it was judged prudent to remove those dangerous temptations from their sight.
		The ample revenues, which his predecessors had consumed in pomp and luxury, he diligently applied to the establishment of hospitals; and the multitudes, who were supported by his charity, preferred the eloquent and edifying discourses of their archbishop to the amusements of the theatre or the circus.
	www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_c6.htm (8590 words)

	Patriarch Fravitta of Constantinople biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		489) was the patriarch of Constantinople from 488 to 489.
		Fravitta was a presbyter in charge of the suburban church of Saint Thecla.
		Fravitta simultaneously wrote letters to Peter Mongus asking for his communion, and a synodal to pope Felix for his sanction and co-operation.
	www.biography.ms /Fravitta_of_Constantinople.html (422 words)

	Arcadius of Rome - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At that time there were two rival political parties at Constantinople, the "Roman" party led by Aurelian (son of Taurus), praetorian prefect, and supported by the empress and a Germanizing and Arianizing party led by Aurelian's brother (possibly Caesarius, praetorian prefect in 400).
		The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom, who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, resulted in his fall and exile (404).
		The rivalry of the see of Alexandria with Constantinople was also displayed in the contest, Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, assisting the court in bringing about the fall of Chrysostom.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Arcadius_of_Rome (613 words)

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		At that time there were two rival political parties at Constantinople, the " Roman " party led by Aurelian (son of Taurus), praetorian prefect, and supported by the em-press and a Germanizing and Arianizing party led by Aurelian's brother (possibly Caesarius, praetorian prefect in 400).
		The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom (q.v.), who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, resulted in his fall and exile (404).
		The rivalry of the see of Alexandria with Constantinople was also displayed in the con-test, Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, assisting the court in bringing about the fall of Chrysostom.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=4276 (615 words)

	Biography of Euphemius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Euphemius of Constantinople (died 515) was patriarch of Constantinople (490 - 496).
		Prior to his appointment, Euphemius was a presbyter of Constantinople, administrator of a hospital for the poor at Neapolis, unsuspected of any Eutychian leanings, and is described as learned and very virtuous.
		Pope Felix III convened in 484 a Roman synod of sixty-seven bishops that condemned the emperor's decree, deposed and excommunicated Acacius, Peter Mongus, and Peter Fuller.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /e/Euphemius.html (758 words)

	XXVI. Progress of The Huns Page 16
		The Barbarians were surprised with the splendid appearance of the capital of the East, the height and extent of the walls, the myriads of wealthy and affrighted citizens who crowded the ramparts, and the various prospect of the sea and land.
		The cavalry of Scythia was forced to yield to the admirable swiftness and spirit of the Arabian horses: their riders were skilled in the evolutions of irregular war; and the Northern Barbarians were astonished and dismayed, by the inhuman ferocity of the Barbarians of the South.
		Fravitta, alarmed and exasperated by the insolence of his rival, whose departure from the palace might have been the signal of a civil war, boldly followed him; and, drawing his sword, laid Priulf dead at his feet.
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	DECLINE & FALL
		The palace of Constantinople rivalled, and perhaps excelled, the magnificence of Persia; and the eloquent sermons of St Chrysostom(1) celebrate, while they condemn, the pompous luxury of the reign of Arcadius "The emperor," says he, "wears on his head either a diadem or a crown of gold, decorated with precious stones of inestimable value.
		From a motive either of prudence or religion, she embraced a life of celibacy; and notwithstanding some aspersions on the chastity of Pulcheria,(69) this resolution, which she communicated to her sisters Arcadia and Marina, was celebrated by the Christian world as the sublime effort of heroic piety.
		In the beginning of the fifth century Armenia was divided by the progress of war and faction; (83) and the unnatural division precipitated the downfall of that ancient monarchy.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume1/chap32.htm (8647 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter32)
		Every quarter of Constantinople was filled with tumult and disorder; and the Barbarians gazed with such ardor on the rich shops of the jewellers, and the tables of the bankers, which were covered with gold and silver, that it was judged prudent to remove those dangerous temptations from their sight.
		By the private invitation of the empress, Theophilus landed at Constantinople with a stou body of Egyptian mariners, to encounter the populace; and a train of dependent bishops, to secure, by their voices, the majority of a synod.
		At the pious solicitation of the clergy and people of Constantinople, his relics, thirty years after his death, were transported from their obscure sepulchre to the royal city.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter32.html (13482 words)

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		The foundation of Constantinople (q.v.) determined the subsequent history of the state; it established permanently the division between the eastern and western parts of the Empire —a principle already introduced—and soon exhibited, though not immediately, the preponderance of the eastern half.
		Capture of Constantinople and dismemberment of the Empire by the Venetians and Franks, A.D. Emperors: Theodore I. (Lascaris), 1206-1222; John_ III.
		This reign is also distinguished by the building of the great landwalls of Constantinople, by the foundation of a university there and by the collection of the imperial laws in the Codex Theodosianus, which is a mine of material for the social condition of the Empire.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=57333&locale=en (2965 words)

	Rome - Vol III, Chapter XXXII, Part 2
		35 Every quarter of Constantinople was filled with tumult and disorder; and the Barbarians gazed with such ardor on the rich shops of the jewellers, and the tables of the bankers, which were covered with gold and silver, that it was judged prudent to remove those dangerous temptations from their sight.
		The triumphs of Arcadius became the subject of epic poems; 40 and the monarch, no longer oppressed by any hostile terrors, resigned himself to the mild and absolute dominion of his wife, the fair and artful Eudoxia, who was sullied her fame by the persecution of St. John Chrysostom.
		The monuments of that eloquence, which was admired near twenty years at Antioch and Constantinople, have been carefully preserved; and the possession of near one thousand sermons, or homilies has authorized the critics 42 of succeeding times to appreciate the genuine merit of Chrysostom.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol3/ch3202.html (3300 words)

	Patriarch Acacius Biography
		Acacius (died 489) was the patriarch of Constantinople from 471 to 489.
		He condemned and deposed Acacius, a proceeding which the latter regarded with contempt, but which involved a schism between the two sees that lasted after Acacius’s death through the long and troubled reign of the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I, and was only healed by Justin I under Pope Hormisdas in 519.
		The Henoticon failed to restore unity to the East, and in 519 the Byzantine emperor Justin I submitted to Pope Hormisdas, and the condemnation of Acacius was recognized by the church of Constantinople.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Acacius_Patriarch.html (1690 words)

	Byzantine Studies Conference: 1984 Abstracts
		While the number of hospices in Constantinople testifies to the pilgrim traffic coming to the Byzantine capital in the middle ages, we know little about how the pilgrims were handled or about what particular shrines and relics they wished to venerate.
		The execution of the Gothic general Fravitta, dated to 401, is usually seen as the culmination of this process of degermanization.
		Perhaps, just as Constantinople has been suggested as the home of the volumetric style, the artistic centers of northern Greece may be posited as the home of the new linearism--a style which interpreted the new forms of the thirteenth century in the formal language of the twelfth.
	www.byzconf.org /1984abstracts.html (16820 words)

	Roman Power and Christian Conflict 285-395 by Sanderson Beck
		Gregory was influential in the ecumenical council at Constantinople in 381.
		This synod of the Oak deposed and banished Chrysostom for immorality and treason in 403.
		Nonetheless Constantinople was on the verge of insurrection, and on the following night the city was convulsed with an earthquake, which frightened Eudoxia so much she begged Emperor Arcadius to recall Chrysostom.
	www.san.beck.org /AB10-RomanPower285-395.html (22723 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 3 - Chapter XXXII Part II
		A private order was despatched to the governor of Syria; and as the people might be unwilling to resign their favorite preacher, he was transported, with speed and secrecy in a post- chariot, from Antioch to Constantinople.
		By the private invitation of the empress, Theophilus landed at Constantinople with a stout body of Egyptian mariners, to encounter the populace; and a train of dependent bishops, to secure, by their voices, the majority of a synod.
		The emperor Theodosius advanced to receive them as far as Chalcedon; and, falling prostrate on the coffin, implored, in the name of his guilty parents, Arcadius and Eudoxia, the forgiveness of the injured saint.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-3/chap24.html (3306 words)

	constantinople (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Related phrases: third council of constantinople second council of constantinople fourth council of constantinople first council of constantinople siege of constantinople arsenius of constantinople mennas of constantinople fravitta of constantinople michel iii de constantinople macedonius i of constantinople
		Constantinople (Roman name: Constantinopolis; Modern Greek: Konstantinoupoli or Κωνσταντινούπολη) is the former name of the city of Istanbul in today's Turkey.
		Renamed from Byzantium, it was the administrative seat of the Eastern Roman Empire until it fell to the Turks in 1453.
	www.vocamania.com /constantinople.aspx (554 words)

	Augustine and the Fall of Rome 395-476 by Sanderson Beck
		Theodosius had briefly reunited the Roman empire under the rule of one man for the last time; but with his death in 395 his 10-year-old son Honorius reigned in the West, and 17-year-old son Arcadius ruled the East; both were to be guided by the commander Stilicho, who was born a Vandal.
		Empress Eudocia, visited Egypt and Jerusalem, and on her return to Constantinople she formed a close friendship with the pagan Cyrus of Panopolis, who was prefect of the East and of the city.
		Poet Sidonius lauded Emperor Anthemius, hailed Constantinople in verse, and was appointed Prefect of Rome; but his friend Arvandus, Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, was prosecuted by the Council of the Seven Provinces before the Roman Senate for malversation and treason, and he was condemned.
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	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XXXII
		The palace of Constantinople rivalled, and perhaps excelled, the magnificence of Persia; and the eloquent sermons of St Chrysostom
		Every quarter of Constantinople was filled with tumult and disorder; and the barbarians gazed with such ardour on the rich shops of the jewellers and the tables of the bankers which were covered with gold and silver, that it was judged prudent to remove those dangerous temptations from their sight.
		Their palace was converted into a monastery, and all males except the guides of their conscience, the saints who had forgotten the distinction of sexes—were scrupulously excluded from the holy threshold.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume1/chap32.htm (9147 words)

	Henoticon, The
		The turbulent orthodox party at Constantinople was supported in its obstinate resistance to the emperor by the Roman see.
		The names of the patriarchs Acacius, Fravitta, Euphemius, and Macedonius, together with those of the emperor Zeno and Anastasius, were erased from the diptychs, and Acacius was branded with a special anathema.
		Fresh disturbances were created when it was found that Hormisdas demanded the condemnation of all who had communicated with Acacius, and turned a deaf ear to the repeated applications of both emperor and patriarch for some relaxation of these terms (Evagr.
	jmgainor.homestead.com /files/PU/PF/he.htm (1837 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XXVI
		He declared his intention of marching from Antioch to Constantinople, to subdue this dangerous rebellion; and, as he was not ignorant of the difficulties of the enterprise, he solicited the assistance of his nephew, the emperor Gratian, who commanded all the forces of the West.
		On their arrival in Thrace they were joined by Richomer, count of the domestics; and the auxiliaries of the West that marched under his banner were composed of the Gallic legions, reduced indeed by a spirit of desertion to the vain appearances of strength and numbers.
		His army was strengthened by a numerous reinforcement of veterans; and his march from Constantinople to Hadrianople was conducted with so much military skill that he prevented the activity of the barbarians, who designed to occupy the intermediate defiles, and to intercept either the troops themselves or their convoys of provisions.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume1/chap26.htm (17007 words)

	BS Foundations chapter 4
		The move of the imperial capital to Constantinople led to a rapid collapse of imperial power in the West, an event not unforeseen by contemporaries.
		He came to Constantinople and in 400, with the support of a few allies, tried to take the government in his own hands, just as Stilicho had in the west.
		Theodoric had been raised in the Imperial court in Constantinople as a hostage and was well acquainted with classical culture as well as the intricacies of Roman politics.
	www.oglethorpe.edu /faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter4.htm (16694 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.3.08
		Ultimately, Gainas' compromises with Tribigild led to rumors that he had colluded with his fellow Goth and, when in 400 Gainas returned to Constantinople, riots arose in which 7,000 of his Goths were murdered.
		In the wake of this violence, Gainas and his forces attempted to flee back across the Hellespont, but their rag-tag fleet was met and destroyed by a third Goth, the MVM Fravitta.
		Their father Theodosius I had, after all, erected a column in the hippodrome of Constantinople whose hieroglyphic inscription began "Horus, the powerful bull," an inscription which H. (164-9) believes Synesius refers to at De Providentia 114C.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/98.3.08.html (3747 words)

	Zachariah of Mitylene, Syriac Chronicle (1899). Book 6.
		And Fravitta was appointed as his successor; a gentle and believing man, who wrote a letter, after the canonical manner, and sent it by some clergy, to Peter of Alexandria.
		And John and Julian the Alexandrians, and the rest of their associates who happened to be there, the Separatists, on seeing 140 his letter to Fravitta, changed their minds; and they were ready on their return to Alexandria to join in communion with him.
		In Constantinople, after Gennadius, Acacius ; and Fravitta, his successor; and Euphemius, his successor, who was ejected in the days of Anastasius.
	www.ccel.org /p/pearse/morefathers/zachariah06.htm (3300 words)

	The Byzantine Fathers
		According to a widespread belief it was composed by Sergius, the Monothelite patriarch of Constantinople in thanksgiving for the deliverance of his city from the Avars and Slavs in 626.
		In any case, at Chalcedon Dioscorus openly rejected any "mixing," "transformation" or "cleavage." Anatolius of Constantinople, during the discussion of the oros at the council, reminded everyone that "Dioscorus was not deposed for faith." It is still impossible to prove through these words that Dioscorus was not in actuality mistaken.
		It was not easy inducing the Western bishops, who had already met in Constantinople, to appear at the Ecumenical Council, and tne Council’s resolutions were accepted in the West only after a long and stubborn struggle.
	www.pravoslavnaolomouc.cz /ODK/CIOT/theo/fleo68.htm (13339 words)

	Arcadius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This was considered the greatest of insults by the citizens of Constantinople who rioted and managed to trap the foreign troops in their church and burn it down around their ears.
		Gainas managed to flee with the rest of his army but they were drowned when they tried to cross the Hellespont where the Roman navy smashed their boats to pieces.
		In an age of increasing violence and chaos, Arcadius died at the palace of Constantinople from illness on May 1, A.D. His son Theodosius II succeeded him on the throne.
	users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/Arcadius.html (635 words)

	DECLINE & FALL
		At the age of nineteen the son of Valentinian seemed to possess the talents of peace and war; and his personal success against the Alemanni was interpreted as a sure presage of his Gothic triumphs.
		While they gazed with hopeless desire on the inaccessible beauties of Constantinople, a sally was made from one of the gates by a party of Saracens, (96) who had been fortunately engaged in the service of Valens.
		He fixed his headquarters at Thessalonica, the capital of the Macedonian diocese; (117) from whence he could watch the irregular motions of the barbarians, and direct the operations of his lieutenants, from the gates of Constantinople to the shores of the Hadriatic.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume1/chap26.htm (13809 words)

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