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Cumque post haec ut futurorum praescius Imperator, disponendae Reipublicae sollicitudine stringeretur, ad orientem protinus mittit, ubi venturus ad bellum, tuta liberos custodia commendarat. Ibique Arcadium Augustum regnum sibi dudum traditum servare praecipit . Honorium vero pari dignatione praeditum, ad occidentis imperium venire ocyus jubet. Quo suscepto, et paternis osculis complexibusque constricto, traditis occidentalis regni gubernaculis, ipse, Romano imperio per annos decem et septem feliciter gubernato, ad meliora migravit, cum piissimis Principibus percepturus praemia meritorum.
And after these things, when the emperor, as one foreknowing the future, was constrained by anxiety for the ordering of the Republic, he straightway sent to the East, where, when about to come to the war, he had committed his children to safe keeping. And there he charged Arcadius Augustus to preserve the kingdom long since handed over to him; but Honorius, endowed with equal dignity, he bade come more quickly to the empire of the West. When he had received him, and embraced him with paternal kisses and embraces, and handed over the helm of the western kingdom, he himself, having governed the Roman empire happily for seventeen years, passed over to better things, to receive among the most pious emperors the rewards of his merits.
這些事之後，皇帝彷彿預知未來的人，為著國政的安排心懷憂慮，便立刻打發人往東方去，他出征時曾把兒女託付在那裡妥善看守。在那裡他吩咐亞迦丟皇帝（Arcadius Augustus）保守那早已交付給他的王權；又命那同享尊位的霍諾留（Honorius）更速速前來接管西方的帝國。及至他接見了霍諾留，以父親的親吻擁抱緊摟著他，把西方王國的舵柄交付之後，他自己幸福地治理羅馬帝國十七年，便遷往更美之境，在最虔誠的諸帝中領受他善行的賞賜。