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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Theodosius I |
 | | In this manner, he put the interests of his family before those of the wider Roman population and was responsible, in many ways, for the phenomenon to which we now refer as the fall of the western Roman empire. |
 | | [[53]]Many modern commentators follow Cameron (1970), 56, in dating the marriage of Serena and Stilicho to 384, although his conclusion, that it was Serena herself, not Theodosius, who chose Stilicho as her husband, that it was "one of those very rare events in a royal family, a love match", ought to have occasioned greater scepticism. |
 | | I interpret this to refer to the treaty of 387 by which the Romans and Persians agreed upon the division of Armenia between their empires. |
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