Note 029 See Priscus, p. 39, 40 [p. 151,152, ed. Bonn]. .It might be fairly alleged that, if females could succeed to the throne, Valentinian himself, who had married the daughter and heiress of the younger Theodosius, would have asserted her right to the Eastern empire.

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