xxxvii.) of the Theodosian code, which has so much embarrassed the interpreters.
Godefroy, tom.iii.p.267 * Note: This conjecture is very doubtful.

The obscurity of the law quoted from the Theodosian code scarcely allows any inference, and there is extant but one meda which can be attributed to a Helena, wife of Crispus.] [Footnote 19: See the life of Constantine, particularly l.ii.c.

19, 20.

Two hundred and fifty years afterwards Evagrius (l.iii.c.

41) deduced from the silence of Eusebius a vain argument against the reality of the fact.] [Footnote 20: Histoire de Pierre le Grand, par Voltaire, part ii.