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But the Emperor Theodosius was filled with great solicitude, and
levied a powerful army against the usurper, fearing test he should
meditate the assassination of the young Valentinian also. While
engaged in this preparation, an embassy arrived from the Persians,
requesting peace from the emperor. Then also the empress Flaccilla
bore him a son named Honorius, on the 9th of September, in the
consulate of Richomelius and Clearchus. Under the same consulate,
and a little previously, Agelius bishop of the Novatians died? In
the year following, wherein Arcsdius Augustus bore his first
consulate in conjunction with Baudon, Timothy bishop of Alexandria
died, and was succeeded in the episcopate by Theophilus. About a
year after this, Demophilus the Arian prelate having departed this
life, the Arians sent for Marinus a leader of their own heresy out of
Thrace, to whom they entrusted the bishopric: but Marinus did not
long occupy that position, for under him that sect was divided into two
parties, as we shall hereafter explain; for they invited Dotatheus to
come to them from Antioch in Syria, and constituted him their
bishop. Meanwhile the emperor Theodosius proceeded to the war against
Maximus, leaving his son Arcadius with imperial authority at
Constantinople. Accordingly arriving at Thessalonica he found
Valentinian and those about him in great anxiety, because through
compulsion they had acknowledged the usurper as emperor. Theodosius,
however, gave no expression to his sentiments in public; he neither
rejected nor admitted the embassy of Maximus: but unable to endure
tyrannical domination over the Roman empire, under the assumption of
an imperial name, he hastily mustered his forces and advanced to
Milan, whither the usurper had already gone.
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