A thousand new statues arose to the clemency of Theodosius; the applause of his subjects was ratified by the approbation of his own heart; and the emperor confessed, that, if the exercise of justice is the most important duty, the indulgence of mercy is the most exquisite pleasure, of a sovereign.

[90] [Footnote 84: The Christians and Pagans agreed in believing that the sedition of Antioch was excited by the daemons.

A gigantic woman (says Sozomen, l.vii.c.

23) paraded the streets with a scourge in her hand.
An old man, says Libanius, (Orat.xii.p.

396,) transformed himself into a youth, then a boy, &c.] [Footnote 85: Zosimus, in his short and disingenuous account, (l.