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References
- ↑ Williams, Stephen, Theodosius: The Empire at Bay, Yale University Press, 1994, p. 27
- ↑ Holum, Kenneth G. (1989-10-25). Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-90970-0.
- ↑ Jones, A.H.M.; Martindale, J.R. (1971). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD 260–395. Cambridge University Press. p.755
- ↑ Gregory of Nyssa, A Funeral Oration for the Empress Flaccilla, J.481
- ↑ Gregory of Nyssa, A Homily of Consolation Concerning Pulcheria
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