Theodosius II

noun

1. a.d. 401–450, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 408–450.

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Critics saw negotiating with Attilla as servile, but they wrongly assumed that Emperor Theodosius II had a military alternative.

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In 435 Theodosius II. and Valentinian III. ordered all Nestorian books to be burned, and another law threatens punishment on all who will not deliver up Manich�an writings for the same fate.

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The relics of St. Stephen were preserved at Constantinople, whither they had been transported from Jerusalem by the Empress Eudoxia, wife of Theodosius II.

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The arrears of taxation which accumulated in consequence were remitted by Theodosius II. in 428.

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Several of his predecessors, and most especially Theodosius II., had endeavoured to codify the chaotic mass and reduce it to order.

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