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 Indare, who having been formerly her Compa­nions upon the Stage, she had made them her Colleagues, and cheif Ministers in Matters of State.

Saturnin having lain the first night with his new Wife, and found her otherwise then he expected, discovered to one of his Confidents, that he had married a person who was no Maid; his complaint being brought to the Empress, she caused him to be secured by his own ser­vants, whipped like a School Boy, upbraiding him all the time with his sawciness with his Wife, called him perjured Rascal, and having seen his backside well torn with the Whip; she advised him to keep his Tongue in his Mouth, and not talk with that liberty for the future.

In my other Books, I have already declared the punishment which she inflicted upon John of Cappadocia, revenging upon him the injuries he had done privately to her, and not any thing that he had acted publickly against the State; for she passed by a thousand greater Delinquents then he, and never medled with them at all.

This John of Cappadocia was a great opposer of Theodoraes designs, and had often accused her of great crimes to the Emperor; so that once he was in some hopes of making a difference betwixt them. (This is the truth of the story, and what I proposed principally to communicate in this Book.) In short, after she had sufficiently plagued the said John, she banished him into Egypt, but that being too little, she persecuted him still, and watched