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of, removed to Constantinople by Con-,
stantine the Great, ii. 190, note.
Delphicum, a royal banqueting-room, iv.
376, note.

Demetrias, the grand-daughter of Proba, a
fugitive from Rome, iii. 445.
Demetrius Palæologus, dissents from the
union of the churches, vii. 237.
Democracy, a form of government unfavour-
able to freedom in a large state, i. 42.
Demophilus, archbishop of Constantinople,
ii. 221. Resigns his see rather than sub-
scribe the Nicene creed, 225, 230, note.
Demosthenes celebrates the fertility of the
Taurican Chersonesus. His mother and
grandmother natives of that peninsula,
vii. 110, note.

Demosthenes, governor of Cæsarea, his gal-
lant defence against, and escape from,
Sapor king of Persia, i. 339.
Demotica, or Didymoteichos, a town of
Thrace, vii. 8, and note. Besieged by the
Bulgarians, and relieved by Amir, 143.
Dengisich, son of Attila, iv. 36.
Denmark, derivation of its name, iii. 102,
note. Controversies between its anti-
quarians and those of Germany, 365, note.
Called Dacia, vii. 131, note; 299, note.
Deogratias, bishop of Carthage, humanely
succours the captives brought from Rome
by Genseric king of the Vaudals, iv. 48.
Some additional particulars, 48, note.
Derar, the Saracen, his character, vi. 29.
His sister an Amazon, 42.

Dicanice, the Greek sceptre, vii. 59.
Didius Julianus, purchases the imperial
dignity at a public auction, ii. 138. Popu-
lar discontent, 140. Deposed and put
to death, 147.

Derbend, a fortified pass in Caucasus, iv.
348. Seized by Timour, vii. 166.
Dervishes, Mahometan monks, vii. 267.
Desiderius, the last king of the Lombards,
conquered by Charlemagne, v. 386.
Despina, the queen of Bajazet, vii: 181.
Despot, nature of that title in the Greek
empire, vi. 200.

Despotism originates in superstition, i. 284,

Diet, German, elected the sovereigns of
Italy and Rome, v. 416.

Dilemites, a people of Hyrcania, iv. 488.
Digest of Justinian. See Pandects.
Dinar, an Arabian coin, vi. 118, and note.
Dioceses, episcopal, ii. 53. Of the Roman em

note. Limited by nature and necessity,
can be guarded only by the sword, vi. 212.
Devonshire, the Courtenays of, vii. 45.
Dexippus, defends Greece against the Goths,
i. 333.

pire, their number and government, 209.
Diocletian, his opinion of Aurelian, i. 385,
and note. Trained in the school of Aure-
lian and Probus, 399. His military elec-
tion to the empire, 420. His birth and
character, 421. Resembled Augustus as a
statesman, 422. Ambitious of imitating
Marcus Antoninus, 423. Takes Maximian
for his colleague, 424. Associates as
Cæsars, Galerius, and Constantius Chlo-
rus, 425. Resigned Britain to Carausius.
430. His victories in Egypt, 436. His
edict against the alchymists, 437. Watched
at Antioch the Persian war, 442. His
triumph in conjunction with Maximian,
450. Fixes his court at the city of Nico-
media, 452. His system of government,
453. Abdicates the empire, 459. Parallel
between him and the emperor Charles V.
460. Passes his life in retirement at
Salona, 462. His death, 463. Baths
erected in his name at Rome by his suc-
cessors, 477, and note.
His impartial
behaviour toward the Christians, ii. 143.
Causes that produced the persecution of
the Christians under his reign, 145. Pub-
lication of his edict, 151. His palace at
Nicomedia twice in flames, 153. Issues
a series of cruel edicts, 157. The dilemma,
in which those placed him, was the real
cause of his abdication, 163, note.
Diogenes, a magistrate of the Chersonites,

D'Herbelot, instruction afforded by his Ori-
ental library, vi. 8, and note.
Diadumenianus, son and colleage of Ma-
crinus, i. 177. His death, 182.
Diadem, said to have been worn by Aure-
lian, i. 385, note. Assumed by Diocletian,
456. The term first properly applied to
Constantine's crown, vi. 200, note. Worn
to the last by the Greek emperors, vii.
59, note.
Diamonds, an article of oriental traffic with

Rome, i. 73, and note. The art of cutting
them, unknown to the ancients, i. 209,
note.

Diarbekir, provincial name of Amida, ii. 317.
and note.

D'Ibelin, count of Jaffa, compiled the
Assises de Jerusalem, vi. 466, and note.

ii. 264.

Diogenes, one of the philosophers who went
to Persia, iv. 355.

Diogenes, a Byzantine general in Italy, iv.
517.

Diolkos, the road for ships across the Isth-
mus of Corinth, vii. 222, note.

Dion Cassius, his record of the advice given
by Mæcenas to Augustus, i. 43, note; ii.
137, note. His views of the imperial
authority, i. 161, note. Screened from
the fury of the soldiers, by Alexander Se-
Makes
verus, 197.
no mention of
Christians in his history, ii. 99, note;
138, note.

Dionysius of Syracuse, his victories in the
Olympic games, iv. 370, note; v. 121, note.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, character of his
history by Gibbon, and by Niebuhr, v.
6, note.

Dionysius, a friend of Origen, ii. 120.
Dionysius Periegeta, date of his work, iii.
160, note. His praise of Syria, vi. 38, note.

Diophantus, philosopher and first writer on,
Algebra, vi. 148, and note.
Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria, his out-
rageous behaviour at the second council
of Ephesus, v. 228. Is deposed by the
council of Chalcedon, 232.
Dioscurias, a mercantile town of Colchis,
iv. 479, note.

Disabul, great khan of the Turks, his recep-
tion of the ambassadors of Justinian, iv.
459.

Discipline of the Roman army, i. 12. Au-
gustus gave it the sanction of law, 96.
Neglected by Commodus, 118. The ef-
forts of Pertinax to restore it cause his
murder, 133. Relaxed by Septimius Se-
verus, 157. Dissolved under Caracalla
by ease and luxury, 175. Revived by Clau-
dius II., 355. Rigidly maintained by Au-
relian, 361. Less cruel under Probus,
409. Corrupted by Constantine, ii. 216.
Continues to degenerate, and Gratiau
allows defensive armour to be laid aside,
iii. 271.

Discipline, want of, among the Barbarians,
i. 294. Introduced by Civilis, 295.
Discipline, ecclesiastical, aided the progress
of Christianity, ii. 49. The institution of
penance was its most severe and solemn
form, 64. Regulated by councils, ib.
Different in the Eastern and Western
churches, vi. 525.

Dispargum, residence of the early Mero-
vingian kings, iv. 10.

Ditch, battle of the, or of the nations. Ma-
homet's third engagement, v. 498.
Divi, or Diva Gens, a name given by the Ro-
mans to the coast of India, iii. 3, and note.
Divination, prohibited in the Roman army
by Aurelian, i. 361. The general practice
of it condemned under rigorous penalties
by Constantine, 458. Encouraged among
the philosophers by Julian, 526.
Divine right of Constantine asserted by the
Christians, ii. 347.
Divinity, attributes and titles of, usurped
by Diocletian and Maximian, i. 455.
Divorce, the liberty and abuse of, by the
Roman laws, v. 54. Limitations of, 56.
Docetes, their peculiar tenets, ii. 397; v.
202. Derivation of their name, ii. 399, note.
Docles, supposed to be the original name
of Diocletian, i. 421, note.

Doclia, a village in Dalmatia, from which
Diocletian's mother derived her origin, i.
421, note.

Dodona, oracle of, its situation, iv. 519,
note. Its bell, vi. 25, note.
Doge of Venice, changes in the character of
his office, vi. 540.

Domestics, military, of Constantine's palace,
and the count commanding them, ii. 229,
and note. The office held by Jovian when
elected emperor, iii. 44.
Domestic, the Great, commander of the land
forces of the Eastera empire, vi, 202,

Dominic, Loricatus, St., his fortitude in
flagellation, vi. 408.

Dominus, when this epithet was applied to
the Ronian emperors, i. 455. Refused
by the emperor Julian, ii. 497, and note.
Domitian, events of his reign, i. 4, 6. His
assassination, 96. His character, 106.
His treatment of his kinsmen Flavius
Sabinus, and Flavius Clemens, ii. 111.
His memory condemned by the senate,
112.

Domitian, the oriental prefect, is sent by
the emperor Constantius to reform the
state of the East, then oppressed by
Gallus, ii. 297. Is put to death there,

298.

Domitilla, niece of Domitian, and wife of
Flavius Clemens, banished, i. 111.
Donative to the military by Claudius, af-
terwards exacted as a legal claim, i. 136,
and note.

Donatus, his contest with Cæcilian for the
see of Carthage, ii. 389. History of the
schism of the Donatists, 389, 453. Perse-
cution of the Donatists by the emperor
Honorius, iii. 533. Its consequences, 534.
Doria, Pagano, Genoese admiral, vii. 113.
Dorylæum, battle of, between the Turks
and the first crusaders, vi. 441.
Doxology, how introduced into the church-
service, and how perverted, ii. 446.
Dragoman, or Tagerman, an Oriental inter.
preter, vi. 202, and note.

Dragon, the visitor general employed by
Constantine Copronymus to dissolve the
monasteries, v. 371.

Dramatic representations at Rome, a cha-
racter of, iii. 420.

Dreams, the popular opinion of the preter-
natural origin of, favourable to that of
Constantine previous to his battle with
Maxentius, ii. 355.

Drin, a river of Albania, vi. 322, note; vii.
282, note.

Drogo, Duke of Apulia, vi. 309.
Dromedary, extraordinary speed of this ani
mal, i. 377, note.

Dromones of the Greek empire, described,
vi. 214, and note.
Druids, their power in Gaul suppressed by
the emperors Tiberius and Claudius, i. 40.
Drungarius, a military or naval commander
in the Greek empire, vi. 202, and note.
Druses of Mount Libanus, a character of,
vi. 391, note.
Dschingis. See Zingis.

Du Bos, the Abbé, his works cited and criti-
cized, ii. 215, note; vii. 342, note.
Ducas, nobility of the family, v. 335. See
Constantine and Michael.

Ducat, the golden coin of the dukes of
Milan, vii. 226, note.

Ducenarius, an imperial procurator, with a
salary of 200 sestertia, ii. 141, note.
Duels, condemned, but tolerated, by Luit
prand, the Lombard king, vi. 127.

Duke, derivation of that title, and great
change in the modern, from the ancient,
application of it, ii. 216. Introduced into
the cities of Italy by Narses, iv. 535.
Dumatians, a tribe in the desert of Arabia,
v. 458.

Dunaan, a persecutor of the Christians in
Arabia, iv. 494, and note.

Dura, a fortified place on the Tigris, where
Jovian signed his treaty with Sapor, iii. 46.
Durazzo, or Dyrrachium, passage to, from
Brundusium, vi. 325. Siege of, by Robert
Guiscard, 327. Battle of, between him
and the Greek emperor Alexius, 330.
The town taken, 333. Evacuated by
Bohemond, 334. Raymond marches
through, 429. Resists Bohemond, 473.
The confederates of the fourth crusade
land there, 548. Michael Angelus obtains
possession of it, vii. 12.

Dyeing, the art of, imperfect in early times,
iv. 311, and note.

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Eagles of the Roman legions, objects of
religious veneration, i. 12, note; 169, note.
Earthquake, an extraordinary one over
great part of the Roman empire, iii. 136.
At Constantinople, 560. Account of those
that happened in the reign of Justinian,
iv. 547. At Antioch, 549. At Smyrna in
the time of Marcus Antoninus, 548, note.
At Rhodes when the Colossus fell, vi.
54.

East, empire of the, definitively separated
from the Western by Arcadius, iii. 482.
Its extent, 483. Its annals from the time
of Heraclius tedious and dark, v. 284.
Abjured the worship of images, 372. The
worship restored by Irene, 396. Con-
tracted limits of the empire, vii. 156. Its
final fall, 323.

East India. See India.

Ecdicius, prefect of Egypt, ordered by Ju-
lian to expel Athanasius, ii. 556.
Ecdicius, son, or son-in-law of the emperor
Avitus, his gallant conduct in Gaul, iv. 84.
Ecebolus, an early lover of the empress
Theodora, iv. 295.

Easter, disputed time for its celebration, iii.
233. Jews compelled by Justinian to
conform to the Christian reckoning, v.
245, and note.

Ebermor, a Gothic prince, iv. 403.

Eckhel, M., has supplied a history of the
Roman emperors from coins, i. 322, note.
His objection to the designation of Ju
lian by the name of "Apostate," ii. 503,
note. His opinion of Gibbon's account
of Julian, 559, note. His correction of
an error respecting the supposed coins of
Count Boniface, iii. 540, note. Respecting
a coin of Theodoric, iv. 269, note. Iň
Gibbon's quotation from a law of the em-
peror Majorian, vii. 29, note.

Ebionites, account of that sect, ii. 14. A
confutation of their errors, supposed, by
the primitive fathers, to be a particular
object in the writings of St. John the
evangelist, 396.

their ideas of the person of Jesus
Christ, v. 199.

Ecbatana, the royal residence in Media, i.
264

Eclectus, chamberlain of the emperor Com-
modus, i. 126.

Ecclesiastes, the book of, not the production
of Solomon, iv. 386. note.

Ecthesis of the emperor Heraclius, v. 251.
Edda, of Iceland, its paradise of immortal

Ecclesiastical and civil powers, the distinc-
tion between, not known before the legal
establishment of Christianity, ii. 367.
Ecclesiastics, Greek, subject to the civil
magistrate, vi. 212.

drunkenness, i. 292, and note. Its system
of mythology, 304, and note.

Edecon, is sent from Attila king of the Huns,
as his ambassador to the emperor Theo-
dosius the Younger, iii. 569. Engages in
a proposal to assassinate Attila, 578. His
son Odoacer, the first barbarian king of
Italy, iv. 97.

Edessa, the capital of Osrhoene, i. 264, the
purest dialect of the Syriac language spo-
ken there, 264. Reduced by the Romans,
265, note. The emperor Valerian de-
feated and made prisoner near its walls,
337. An early seat of Chrtstianity, ii.
78.

The property of the Christians
there, confiscated by the emperor Julian
for the disorderly conduct of the Arians,
553. Revolt of the Roman troops there,
v. 160. Account of the school of, 257.
History of the famous image, 363. The
principality of, founded by Baldwin the
crusader, vi. 444. Its Turkish name Orfa,
ib., note. Is retaken by Zenghi, 487.
The counts of, vii. 40.

Edict of Diocletian, ii. 151. Of Milan, pub-
lished by Constantine the Great, ii. 342.
Edict, the perpetual, v. 17.

Edicts of the prætors of Rome, under the

republic, their nature and tendency, v. 15.
Edobic, ambassador from the usurper Con-
stantine to the Franks, iii. 463.
Edom, why that name was applied to the
Roman empire by the Jews, ii. 90, note.
Edrisites, the Saracen dynasty of, vi. 191.
Edward I. of England, his crusade to the
Holy Land, vi. 520.

Egbert, king of Wessex, Charlemagne's
friend, v. 412, note.
Egidius. See Egidius.
Egilona. See Ayela.

Eginhard, secretary and historian of Charle-
magne, v. 388, note. His marriage with
Imma doubted, 484, note.

Egypt, general description of, i. 32. The
superstitions of, with difficulty tolerated

at Rome, 40. Amount of its revenue, 202,
Public works executed there by Probus,
407. Conduct of Diocletian there, 435.
Egypt, progress of Christianity there, ii. 73.
Its kings always priests, 368, note.
-edict of the emperor Valens, to restrain
the number of monks there, iii. 88.
The worship of Serapis, how introduced
there, 285. His temple, and the Alexan-
drian library destroyed by bishop Theo-
philus, 287.

origin of monkish institutions in, iv.
108. Supplies of wheat furnished by,
for the city of Constantinople, 310.
conquered by Chosroes II., v. 172.
Ecclesiastical history of, 271.

reduced by the Saracens, vi. 56. Cap-
ture of Alexandria, 63. Administration
of, 67. Description of, by Amrou, 69.
Conquered by the Turks, 488. Theatre
of the fifth crusade, 510, and note. Of
the sixth under St. Louis, 516. Govern-
ment of the Mamalukes, 519.
Ekebolius, a rhetorician, one of Julian's
tutors, ii. 505, note.
Elagabalus, his proper name Bassianus,
high priest of the sun at Emesa, i. 180.
Declared emperor by the troops, 181.
Origin of his assumed name, 184. His
reign and extravagance, 185. His death,
188. The first Roman who wore garments
of pure silk, iv. 313.

Eleanora, queen of Edward I., vi. 520, and
note.

Electors, seven, in Germany; their ranks
and privilege, v. 431.

Elephant, era or war of the, v. 138, note;
463, and note.

Elephantine, Isle of, i. 437; iv. 342, note.
Elephants, the number brought into the
field by the ancient princes of the East,
i. 266, note. Introduced in the circus
at Rome in the first Punic war, 416.
In Sapor's army at Nisibis, ii. 177. In
Timour's, at Angora, vii. 178.
Eleusinian mysteries, Julian initiated, ii.
515. Tolerated by the emperor Valen-
tinian, iii. 84. The last remains of Pagan-
ism, extirpated by Alaric, 340.
Elijahs, Nestorian patriarchs of Mosul, v.
261.

Elixir, of immortal health, sought by the
Arabians, vi. 150.

Elizabeth, queen, her politic use of pulpit
oratory, ii. 383. Patronized the bards in
Wales, iv. 228, note.

Ellac, eldest son of Attila, iv. 36.
Eloquence, an aid to Christian devotion, ii.
382. A powerful engine of patriotism or
ambition, iv. 351.
Embroidery, of various devices on garments,
iii. 408, and note; v. 365, note.
cupation of Barbarian females, iii. 574.
Emesa, or Hems, temple of the sun at, i.
180. Battle of, Zenobia defeated by Au-
relian, 376. Taken by the Saracens, vi.

An oc-

40. Recovered by Zimisces, 170. Again
lost, 180. Held against the crusaders,
463.
Emigration of the early population of Eu
rope was always from East to West, i
271, note. Its nature and motives, 283.
Did not proceed from Scandinavia, and
was attracted by the spoils of richer
lands, iii. 97, note; 345, note. Their
numbers unduly magnified, 97 and 101,
note. Confused accounts given by an
cient writers, 365, note; 410, note; iv. 226.
Emir, Arabian chief, his dignity and powers,
v. 447. The root of our word admiral,
vi. 203.

Emir al Omrah, appointed by the Turkish
guards to supersede the vizirs, and rule
the Caliph of Bagdad, v. 174, and note.
Emir, an, of Saragossa appeals to the Diet
of Paderborn, v. 409.

Emperors of Rome, general view of their
system, i. 90. Legal jurisdiction of the
senate over them, 130. Their republican
forms and titles of offices laid aside by
Diocletian and new dignities assumed,
454. Six at one time occupy the throne,
484. Their conduct towards the Chris-
tians, ii. 86, 98. Their power displayed
in the change of the national religion,
367. They retain, after the establish
ment of Christianity, the title, ensigns,
and prerogatives of Pontifex Maximus,
461. Gratian the First, who lays them
aside, iii. 210, note; 275. A review of
their constitutions. v. 18. Their legisla
tive power, 20. Their rescripts, 21.
Emperors of Constantinople obstinately re-
tained the fictitious title of emperor of
the Romans, iii. 482. Their pomp and
luxury, vi. 196. Their officers and cere
monies, 202. Their despotic power, 211.
Their weakness and distress, vii. 156.
Emperors of the West, Charlemagne revives
the title, v. 403. Its dignity declines
under his successors, 414. Is restored
by Otho, 415; their authority in the
election of the popes, 418, contrast be-
tween them and Augustus, 425.
Empire, Roman, the assigned causes of its
decline are only symptoms, not the root,
of the evils, i. 162, note. Its true cause
indicated, ii. 375, note. Division of, into
the Eastern and Western empires by Va-
lentinian, iii. 69. Their final separation
under Arcadius and Honorius, iii. 482.
Empire of the East. See East.
Empire of the West. See West.
Encampment See Camp.
England, derivation of its name, iii. 101,
note, (or Britain). Described by Chalco-
condylas, vii. 218. Admitted as one of
the five great nations of Christendom, to
vote in the council of Constance, 429, and
note.

English. See Varangians.
Ennodius writes the Life of Epiphanius,

bishop of Pavia, iv. 89, note. Is appointed,
to that see by Theodoric, 254, note.
Enoch, the book of, v. 471, note.
Entertainments, or private banquets, at
Rome, described by Ammianus Marcel-
linus, iii. 412.

Entrails of animals not inspected in Ho-
mer's sacrifices, iii. 282, note.
Epagathus, punished by Alexander Severus
for the murder of Ulpian, i. 197.
Ephesus, the temple of Diana at, destroved
by the Goths, i. 335. Councils of, v. 219,
228. Desolated by the Turks, vii. 141.
Epictetus, his character of the Galilæans,
ii. 108, note, 128.

Epictetus, an Arian bishop in Gaul, ii. 476
Epicureans, their opinions, i. 38. Prevalent
among the higher classes in Italy, 79.
Abhorred by Julian, ii. 525. One of the
schools of Athens endowed by Hadrian,
and the Antonines, iv. 350-353. Treba-
tius said to have joined them, v. 28,

note.

Epicurus, taught his disciples to act and to
suffer, 351. Bequeathed to them his
gardens and a fund for festivals, 352.
Banished by the Athenians, 353.
Epiphania. See Eudocia.

Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia, his de-
scription of Arius, ii. 404, note. Joins in
persecuting Chrysostom, iii. 504, note.
Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, his embassy
from Ricimer to Anthemius, iv. 89. His
benevolence, ib., note. He intercedes
with Odoacer for Pavia, 96; 103, note.
Epirus, attacked by the Goths, i. 333. De-
putation from, to Valentinian, iii 133.
Occupied by Alaric, 342. Colonized by
Paulicians, vi. 246. Invaded by Robert
Guiscard, 337. By Bohemond, 473.
Despotat of, vii. 12. Seat of the Castriot
family, 279. See Albania.

Episcopal government. See Bishops.
Epulos, priests who prepared the sacred
banquets, iii. 274.

Erdaviraph, one of the seven Magi, elected
to reform their religion, i. 253.
Erixo, a Roman saved by Augustus from
the fury of the people, v. 49.
Eros and Anteros, two genii of love evoked
by Iamblichus, ii. 514, note.
Erpenius, translator of Elmacin's Saracen
history, vi. 8, note. A proof of Latin
ignorance of arithmetic, 141, note.
Eslaw, one of Attila's ambassadors, iii. 579.
Essenians, their community of goods, ii. 58.
Their distinguishing tenets and practices,
73.

Estates of the Roman senators, their extent
and cultivation, iii. 403, and note.
Este, house of, their genealogy and connec-
tion with the Guelphs of Brunswick, vi.
323, note; 475, note; vii. 442, note.
Estius, a Dutch divine; his idea of Omni-
potence, ii. 413, note.

Equestrian order, formed the cavalry of the
republic; mostly employed in civil offices
by the emperors, i. 16, and note.
Equitius, master-general of Illyricum under
Valentinian, iii. 130. Attempts to exclude
Gratian from the throne, 135.
Eras, of Antioch, ii. 545, note. Christian,
iv. 358, 359, notes. Of Diocletian, or of
the Martyrs, ii. 143, note. Gelalæan, vi.
382, note. Of the Hegira, v. 489, note.
Of the Indictions, i. 498, note; ii. 232,
and note. Of Julius Cæsar, vi. 90, note.
Of Seleucus, i. 260, note. Of the World,
iv. 357, 358, 359, notes. Of Yezdegerd, vi.
11, note.

Erasmus, his delineation of Hilary's cha-
racter, ii. 411, note. His account of
"Cimmerian darkness" in his Adagia, iii.
409, note. A rational theologian, vi. 254.
note. Studied Greek at Oxford and
taught it at Cambridge, vii. 257, note.
VOL. VII.

Etruscans, or Tuscans, ancient inhabitants
of central Italy, i. 26. Introduced the
first haruspices among the Romans, iii.
282. And the Pelasgic alphabet, v. 6, note.
Eucharist, a difficulty to the first reformers,

vi. 251.

Eucherius, the son of Stilicho, put to death,
iii. 388

Euchrocia of Bordeaux, widow of the orator
Delphidius, put to death for Priscillian-
ism, iii. 234.

Eudes, duke of Aquitain, repels the first
Saracen invasion of France, vi. 128. De-
feated, 129. Implores the aid of Charles
Martel, 130. Recovers his dukedom, 132.
Eudocia, or Athenais, her birth, character,
and marriage with the emperor Theo-
dosius the younger, iii. 516. Her literary
works, 517. Her disgrace and death,
518. Her coins, 519.

Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III. is
married to Hunneric, iv. 72.

Eudocia, widow of Constantine Ducas, v.
335. Marries Romanus Diogenes, 336.
Cultivates philosophy, 337, vi 231. The
Anecdota of Procopius known to her, iv.
291, note.

Eudocia, niece of Manuel Comnenus, para-
mour of Andronicus, v. 347.

Eudocia, first wife of the emperor Heraclius,
v. 178; 189, note; 289.

Eudocia, or Epiphania, their daughter, be-
trothed to Ziebel, khan of the Chozars.
v. 189, and note.

Eudocia of Damascus, her romantic story,
vi. 35.

Eudoxia, her marriage with the emperor
Arcadius, iii. 316. Stimulates him to
give up his favourite Eutropius, 494.
Persecutes Chrysostom, 506. Her death
and character, 509.

Eudoxia, the daughter of Theodosins the
younger, is betrothed to the young em-
peror Valentinian III. of the West, iii.
527. Her character, iv. 39. Is com-
pelled to marry the usurper Maximus, 45.

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