Edward Gibbon, an English historian, published The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. This is Chapter 32 of that work. He follows Rome from the prosperous age of Trajan and the Antonines, around the year 100, through the fall of the West and on to the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453.

Chapter 32 takes up arcadius emperor of the East—Administration and disgrace of Eutropius—Revolt of Gainas—Persecution of St. John Chrysostom—Theodosius II emperor of the East—His sister Pulcheria—His wife Eudocia—The Persian War, and division of Armenia. The footnotes are not in this reading; what you have is the narrative.