CAP. XXV.
How immediatly after this battell the Emperour Theodosius sickned and departed this life afore the triumphes were fully ended.
THe Emperour Theodosius by reason of the trauell and great toyle he had taken about those warres, beganne to be very ill at ease. And when that his disease gaue him to vnderstande that the mortall race of his naturall life was then to be finished, care and doubts appertay∣ning vnto the gouernment of the common weale troubled him more then the frayle departure or the feare of death, yea when he considered with him selfe how many calamities do commonly hap∣pen vnto the empire when the Emperour and the scepter be parted asunder. Wherefore he sent in post hast for his sonne Honorius to Constantinople, purposing to establish through him peace and tranquilitie in the West partes of the worlde. At the comming of the sonne to Millayne the fa∣ther was somewhat recouered and beganne to celebrate exercise of triumphe for ioye of the victo∣ry gotten of the tyrant. In the morning he felt him selfe so well that he honored the triumphe with his presence. In the afternoone he was so sodainly taken with his disease that he was not able to goe & beholde the solemnitie, but charged his sonne to see all the royaltie accomplished, the night* 1.1 following he departed this life. It was when Olybrius and Probinus were Consuls the seuenteneth of Ianuary, the first yeare of the two hundreth nynety and fourth Olympiad. This Theodosius the Emperour liued three score yeares and raygned sixteene. This booke contayneth the history of sixteene yeares and eyght moneths.