Note 079
From Chapter 32 of the Decline & Fall

For the two pilgrimages of Eudocia, and her long residence at Jerusalem, her devotion, alms, etc., see Socrates (1. vii. c. 47) and Evagrius (1. i. c. 20, 21, 22). The Paschal Chronicle may sometimes deserve regard: and, in the domestic history of Antioch, John Malala becomes a writer of good authority. The Abbe Guenee, in a memoir on the fertility of Palestine, of which I have only seen an extract, calculates the gifts of Eudocia at 20,488 pounds of gold, above 800,000 pounds sterling.

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