the jealousy of the emperor pursued her: and having heard that Severus the priest, and the deacon John, had accompanied her in this voluntary exile, he caused them to be put to death. Rendered irritable by insults, the empress was roused, by this inhuman action, to such an excess of fury, that she caused Saturninus (the minister of the emperor in this act) to be murdered. This crime blackened her character, instead of avenging her innocence. She lived twenty years longer, touched with the truest grief and penitence for that rash act, abounding in works of benevolence and usefulness, constructing churches and monasteries, and conferring many privileges on Jerusalem. She was buried in the church of St. Stephen, and declared, even when dying, that her union with Paulinus had never been criminal; that she had only loved in him the friend of Theodosius, and a generous protector, who had seconded the kind designs of Pulcheria.
ATHYRTE, Daughter of Sesostris, King of Egypt,
Was skilled in all the learning of the times, particularly in astronomy, as it was then understood by the Magi. She encouraged her father to pursue the chimerical project of conquering the world, by assuring him of success from her divinations, from her dreams in the temples, and from the prodigies she had seen in the air.
