Tarquin the Proud and Coriolan confront each other during the Battle of Lake Regillus which<hr>
pitted the Roman Republic against the Latin confederates gathered by Tarquin after his exile from<hr>
Rome.<hr>
        Lartius, or Titus Larcius Flavus, is a Roman statesman who is the first<hr>
magistrate invested with dictatorship in 501 or 498 BC. He leads the siege of Corioli in the
war against the Volscians. The city is captured thanks to the actions of a young man, Coriolan.<hr>
        Cominius, or Postumius Cominius Auruncus, is a Roman politician from the<hr>
5th century BC. He is appointed consul with Titus Larcius Flavus.<hr>
        The Antiates are the inhabitants of Antium, one of the main cities of ancient Latium.<hr>
It is located on the Tyrrhenian coast. It is the capital of the Volscians until it is taken over by the<hr>
Romans.<hr>
        The Aediles, also known as ediles, are magistrates of Ancient Rome. Their<hr>
original function is related to the urban administration of Rome. They play a judicial role as<hr>
judges.<hr>
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                     Thirteenth discourse - Eudoxia to Theodosius<hr>
                               Eudoxia, Eastern Empress<hr>
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        Eudoxia, the daughter of the philosopher and rhetorician Leontias, rose to the Byzantine Empire thanks to<hr>
her beauty, the exceptional qualities of her mind, and the favors of Pulcheria. However,<hr>
her luck was short-lived. The Emperor Theodosius, her husband, influenced by his sister<hr>
Pulcheria who gave him the throne, as well as by reports from Paulinus, condemned her to death and deprived her of his favor. In her distress, Eudoxia was skillfully persuaded to withdraw<hr>
from the court. Feeling herself helpless, she asked what was expected of her, namely<hr>
the permission to go to Jerusalem. Thus, at the time of her departure and their farewell, she<hr>
expressed herself in the following terms to Emperor Theodosius.<hr>
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                                    Eudoxia to Theodosius<hr>
        My Lord, as I prepare to leave the court to retire to Palestine, I ask you, in the name of Emperor Trajan, from whom she descends, in the name of great Theodosius,<hr>
his grandfather, in the name of Arcadius, his father, and in the name of great Constantine, from whom she holds<hr>
the scepter and whose devotion she imitates, to allow me today to reveal all that I think<hr>
of your sister, the cause of my past happiness and current unhappiness. Thus, I could<hr>
at least, as I distance myself from you, take solace in not having forsaken my innocence.<hr>
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