1 | "Good morning, Theodore, " I said to a sailor beside me. | |
2 | The emperor, it is said, one day sent her an apple of an extraordinary size. | |
3 | Paulinus, not knowing from whom the apple originally came, presented it to the emperor, who soon saw the empress, and asked her what she had done with the apple. | |
4 | In aD 393, the Games were ended at the order of the Roman Emperor Theodosius. | |
5 | In 394 AD, the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius abolished the games, as pagan festivals. |