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The Emperor Theodosius was in consequence of the anxiety and fatigues
connected with this war thrown into bodily illness; and believing the
disease which had attacked him would be fatal, he became more concerned
about the public affairs than his own life, considering how great
calamities often overtook the people after the death of their
sovereign. He therefore hastily summoned his son Honorius from
Constantinople, being principally desirous of setting in order the
state of things in the western parts of the empire. After his son's
arrival at Milan, he seemed to recover a little, and gave directions
for the celebration of the games of the hippodrome on account of his
victory. Before dinner he was pretty well, and a spectator of the
sports; but after he had dined he became suddenly too ill to return to
them, and sent his son to preside in his stead; when the night came on
he died, it being the seventeenth of January, during consulate of
Olybrius and Probus. This was in the first year of the two hundred
and ninety-fourth Olympiad. The emperor Theodosius lived sixty
years, and reigned sixteen. This book therefore comprehends the
transactions of sixteen years and eight months.
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