49. M. de Tillemont has very properly given the succession
of chamberlains who reigned in the name of Theodosius.
Chrysaphius was the last, and, according to the unanimous
evidence of history, the worst of these favourites (see
Hist. des Empereurs, tom. vi. p. 117-l l 9; Mem. Eccles.
.tom. xv. p. 438). His partiality for his godfather, the
heresiarch Eutyches, engaged him to persecute the orthodox
party.