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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 455

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She who can shape the ways of a boy may guidethe will of an empire. Be thou, then, Regent andAugusta, and rule this empire as becometh thedaughter of Arcadius and the granddaughter ofthe great Theodosius. And as he desired, so it was decided. The Senateof the East decreed it and, in long… … m ^a—..> ? PULCHERIA AUGUSTA, REGENT OF THE EAST ! government and throngs of palace attendants, thisyoung girl of sixteen, on the fourth day of July, inthe year 414, proceeded to the Church of the HolyApostles, and was there publicly proclaimed Pul-cheria Augusta, Regent of the East,…

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