The Boat of Fate
“For days the field army camped under the walls while the city accorded him the honours that were his due; at the end of that anxious time of waiting he made his intentions known. Almighty God, he told a packed and silent Senate, had once more manifested his divine will. By his hand the Empire’s enemies had been scattered, the doubters silenced for ever. Therefore let all men. praise the Lord for their deliverance. Meanwhile, as a reward for faithfulness, he named his younger son Honorius as Cae...sar of the West. For Rome herself he had prepared a unique honour. Other cities might surpass her in the arts of government, but from henceforward her Bishop would be foremost in the councils of the Church; through the good Damasus her voice would once more be heard in world affairs. How Symmachus and his party received the news was not recorded; for the moment it was enough that Theodosius departed, grey and worn, for Constantinopolis. There less than six months later he was to die, leaving a child of thirteen the master of our fates.Shortly after the Augustus and his followers left Rome the guards at the Aurelian Gate witnessed a curious sight.MoreLess
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