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THEODOSIUS, the name of three Roman emperors of the East.

THEODOSIUS I., " the Great," son of Theodosius, Valentinian's great general, who in 368-69 drove back the Picts and Scots from the Roman territories in Britain and suppressed the revolt of Firmus in Mauretania (372). Shortly after (376), the elder Theodosius w ...

THEODOSIUS II. (401-450) succeeded his father Arcadius as emperor of the East in 408. During his minority the empire was ably ruled by the praetorian prefect Anthemius and Pulcheria, who became her brother's guardian in 414. Under his sister's care the young e ...

THEODOSIUS III., emperor of the East (716-717), was afinancial officer whom a Byzantine army rebelling against Anastasius III. unexpectedly proclaimed monarch in his stead. He captured Constantinople after a six months' siege and deposed Anastasius, but in the ...

THEODORUS, FLAVIUS MALLIUS," Roman consul A.D. 399, author of an extant treatise on metres, one of the best of its kind (H. Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi.). He also studied philosophy, astronomy and geometry, and wrote works on those subjects, which, together wi

THEODOSIA, formerly KAFFA, a seaport and watering-place of South Russia, on the east coast of the Crimea, 66 m. E.N.E. of Simferopol and 72 m. by a branch line from the SebastopolEkaterinoslav railway. It has an excellent modern harbour, and its roadstead, whi

ATHETOSIS (Gr. Meraf, " without place "), the medical term applied to certain slow, purposeless, deliberate movements of the hands and feet. The fingers are separately flexed and extended, abducted and adducted in an entirely irregular way. The hands as a whol

THOMASIUS, CHRISTIAN (1655-1728), German jurist and publicist, was born ac Leipzig on the ist of January 1655, and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622-1684), at that time head master of the Thomasschule. Through his father's lectures Christian ca

... orthodox. In Greek they were called Hydro parastatae, or those who offer water. Theodosius, in his persecuting edict of 382, classes them as a special sect with the Manicheans, who also eschewed wine. See EUCHARIST.

... ank. Having served with distinction against the Goths in Thrace, he was sent by Theodosius in 388 against Maximus, who had usurped the empire of the west and had murdered Gratian. His complete success, which resulted in the destruction of Maximus and his sons ...

ARCADIUS (373-408), Roman emperor, the elder son of Theodosius the Great, was created Augustus in 383, and succeeded his father in 395 along with his brother Honorius. The empire was divided between them, Honorius governing the two western prefectures (Gaul an ...

... reputation for his knowledge of Greek and Roman literature. He was appointed by Theodosius the Great, tutor of the young princes Arcadius and Honorius, but at the age of forty he retired to Egypt, where for forty years he lived in monastic seclusion at Scetis ...

... xtraordinary occasions. The brotherhood is said to have lasted till the time of Theodosius. The British Museum contains a bust of Marcus Aurelius in the dress of a Prater Arvalis. M.irini. Alii e Monumrnti de' Fratri Artali (1795): Hoffmann, Die 4.|(l858); Old ...

... founded in 963; Vatope'di (BarorUtoy), said to have been founded by the emperor Theodosius; Rossikon CPwoffuM), the Russian monastery of St Pantelelmon; Chiliandari (XtXiorrdpuw1: supposed to be derived from xtXtot ivoptt orx>Xta Xforr&pta), founded by the Ser ...

... hydroparaslalae in the 4th century, and were liable to death under the code of Theodosius. Some of the Monophysite churches, e.g. the Armenian, eschewed water and used pure wine, so falling under the censure of the council in Trullo of A.D. 692. Milk and hone ...

EUDOCIA AUGUSTA (c. 4oi-c. 460), the wife of Theodosius II., East Roman emperor, was born in Athens, the daughter of the sophist Lcontius, from whom she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric. Deprived of her small patrimony by her brothers' r ...

... perils from without made a closer supervision essential, and after the death of Theodosius I. (395) the empire was divided HISTORY] EUROPE IN THE VI CENTURY •im<»D •/ f»« Htm** fmgirt ft tut *««• a/ TUndortc S3t. ' Fm+lil, Xl»fd,m ctrtt 4OO (f.jf CofHj •« t/ S ...

... upport of the doctrine of the two natures and one person. Meanwhile the emperor Theodosius died, and Pulcheria and Martian who succeeded summoned, in October 451, a council (the fourth ecumenical) which met at Chalcedon (q.v.). There the synod of Ephesus was d ...

... ymmachus was involved in the rebellion of Maximus, but obtained his pardon from Theodosius, and appears to have continued in public life up to his death. In 391 he was Consul ordinarius. His honesty, both in public and in private affairs, and his amiability ma ...

... e of the lower empire, in which it depended almost wholly upon constitutions of Theodosius and Valentinian, incorporated in the Theodosian Code (Tit. xy. 5, 6, 7), and a century later to a large extent adopted by Justinian. In the whole of this law there is an ...

... onstantius in 355. He was prefect of Constantinople in 384 on the nomination of Theodosius. His paraphrases of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Physics and De Anima are valuable; but the orations in which he panegyrizes successive emperors, comparing them to P ...