The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.

CHAP. I. That after the death of the Emperour Theodosius, when his Sons had divided the Empire [be∣tween them,] and Arcadius had met the Army returning from Italy, after some short stay there; Rufinus the Praefectus Praetorio was killed by the Souldiers at the Emperours feet.

THE Emperour Theodosius having ended his life in the Consulate of Olybrius and Probinus, on the seven∣teenth of the month January; his Sons succeeded him in the Roman Empire. Ar∣cadius had the Government of the Eastern Em∣pire, and Honorius of the Western. [The Bi∣shops] who Presided over the Churches at that time, were Damasus in the Imperial [Ci∣ty] Rome; Theophilus at Alexandria; Johan∣nes was in possession of the Churches at Jerusa∣lem; and Flavianus of those at Antioch. At Constantinople [termed also] New Rome, Ne∣ctarius filled the [Episcopall] Chair, as we have related in the foregoing Book. About the eighth of the month November, in the same Consulate, Theodosius's body was brought [to Constantinople,] and interred by his Son Arca∣dius with an honourable and solemn Funeral. Not long after this, on the eight and twentieth of the same month, the Army also arrived, which had been employed in the War against the Tyrant, under the Emperour Theodosius's command. When therefore the Emperour Arcadius (a∣greeable to the usuall custom) had met the Ar∣my without the City-gates, the Souldiers at that time slew Rufinus the Emperours Praefectus Praetorio. For Rufinus lay under a suspicion of turning Tyrant, and 'twas believed, that he had called the a 1.1 Hunni (a Barbarous Nation) into the Roman Territories. For at that time they destroyed Armenia, and some parts of the East, by making incursions into those Provinces. Moreover, on the same day whereon Rufinus was killed, Marcianus Bishop of the Novatians died. He was succeeded in that Bishoprick by Sisinnius, of whom we have made mention * 1.2 above.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Zozimus (book 5.) relates, that Alari∣cus and the Goths, not the Hunni, were solli∣cited by Rufinus, to invade the Roman Provinces. The same is assert••d by Marcellinus in his Chronicon. But Sozomen (book 8. chap. 1.) agrees with Socrates. Not, is there any disagreement between the forecited Authors. For Ru∣finus called in both those Nations against the Romans; the Goths first, under their Chief, Alaricus: after the Goths were routed by Stilichon he excited the Hunni to assist the Goths, as Claudian tells us, in his first book against Rufinus; and in his second book, he sets forth the same more clearly, neer the beginning thereof. But Sigonius, in his tenth book de Occidentali Imperio, where he makes it his business to relate this whole story, speaks not one word concerning this irruption of the Hunni; which negligence of his is inexcusable. Vales.
• * 1.2

  See book 5. chap. 21.