Aelia Eudocia, wife of TheodosiusⅡ, East Roman emperor, lived happily till a trifling accident exposed her to her husband's jealousy.
The emperor, it is said, one day sent her an apple of an extraordinary size. She gave it to Paulinus, a good-looking friend of the emperor, whom she respected on account of his learning. 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.
Apprehensive of raising suspicions in her husband, Eudocia very unwisely declared that she had eaten it. Her confusion may easily be conceived when the emperor produced the apple, and indignantly gave vent to his suspicions. He ordered Paulinus to be put to death, and banished Eudocia to Jerusalem, where she died.
依麗亞．歐多西亞是東羅馬皇帝狄奧多西二世的妻子，只因一件小事，引起丈夫妒忌，斷送了幸福生活。
據說，狄奧多西有一天送給妻子一個特大蘋果。她拿去給了波萊納斯：波萊納斯是狄奧多西的朋友，樣子俊美，以其學問獲得歐多西亞敬重。他不知道那蘋果最初來自誰人，還拿去送給狄奧多西。不久，狄奧多西見到皇后，問她把蘋果怎樣了。
歐多西亞一時愚蠢，怕引起丈夫懷疑，就說把蘋果吃了。狄奧多西拿出那個蘋果，怒氣沖沖，講出心中猜疑。歐多西亞當時的狼狽樣子，不難想像。狄奧多西下令把波萊納斯處死，並把歐多西亞放逐到耶路撒冷。歐多西亞後來就在耶路撒冷去世。
（古德明）
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