Suidas (Excerpt. p. 53)
There is a remarkable difference between the two ecclesiastical historians who in general bear so close a resemblance. Sozomen (1. ix. c. 1) ascribes to Pulcheria the government of the empire amid the education of her brother, whom he scarcely condescends to praise. Socrates, though he affectedly disclaims all hopes of favour or fame, composes an elaborate panegyric on the emperor, and cautiously suppresses the merits of his sister (1. vii. c. 22, 42). Philostorgius (1. xii. c. 7) expresses the influence of Pulcheria in gentle and courtly language,
gives a true character of Theodosius; and I have followed the example of Tillemont (tom. vi. p. 25) in borrowing some strokes from the modern Greeks.