Le rege Theodosio

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Le rege Theodosio, qui habeva tres filias, esseva expellite del imperio. Su filia le plus juvene e povre le salvava in su hora de grande necessitate.

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Theodiosius, un homine prudente e potente qui habeva tres filias regnava in un citate del imperio roman. Ille diceva a su filia senior, "Quanto me ama tu?" E illa respondeva, "Certemente plus que me ipse." Tunc su patre diceva a illa, "Io va trovar te un marito richissime." E ille la faceva maritar con un rege potente e ric.

E post isto ille veniva a su secunde filia e diceva a illa, "Quanto me ama tu?" E illa respondeva, "Tanto como me ipse." Theodosio tunc trovava un duce pro illa.

Ille tunc vadeva a su tertie filia et diceva, "Quanto me ama tu?" E illa respondeva, "Tanto como tu merita, ni plus ni minus." Su patre tunc diceva a illa, "A causa de isto io non potera facer te maritar con un homine tan ric como le maritos de tu sorores." E ille trovava pro illa un marito qui esseva solmente un conte.

Non multe tempore post isto le imperator expelleva Theodosio de su imperio a un region ubi ille non poteva trovar un bon refugio. Ille scribeva un littera a su prime filia, qui habeva dicite que illa amava su patre plus que se ipse, de maniera que illa le adjuvava in su hora de necessitate post esser expellite del imperio.

Su filia, post leger iste littera, narrava al rege qui esseva su marito le problemas de su patre. Le rege respondeva, "Il es bon que nos le salva in su hora de necessitate. Io colligera un armea e le adjuvara."

Illa tunc diceva, "Isto non pote facer se sin grande expensas. Il es sufficiente que tu da, durante que ille es foras de su imperio, solmente cinque soldatos que se associara con ille." E isto es lo que se faceva. Illa tunc scribeva a su patre que isto esseva le sol auxilio que illa poteva offerer a ille.

Theodosius, quando ille audiva isto, deveniva multo triste et diceva a se, "Omne mi sperantia esseva in me filia senior qui diceva que illa me amava plus que se ipse, e a causa de isto io la faceva maritar se con un rege ric."

Ille tunc scribeva a su secunde filia qui dixit "Io te ama tanto como me ipse" sperante que illa le salvarea in su hora de necessitate. Ma post audir isto, illa parlava a su marito, consiliante que ille non concedeva a su patre ullo ultra alimentos e vestimentos, e illa scribeva un littera a su patre dicente isto.

Theodosio, post audir isto, deveniva multo triste, dicente, "Duo ex mi filias me decipeva. Io jam essayara a reciper adjuta ex mi tertie filia qui diceva, "Io te ama tanto como tu vale." Ille scribeva un littera a illa implorante que illa le adjuvava, dicente como su sorores respondeva a ille."

Le tertie filia, post vider le stato inope de su patre, diceva a su marito, "Domino mie, salva le in iste le hora de su necessitate. Mi patre esseva expellite ex su proprie terra." Su marito respondeva, "Que vole tu que io face?" Illa tunc diceva, "Collige un armea et vade con illo a vincer su inimico." Le conte respondeva, "Io facera lo que tu vole."

Ille colligeva un grande armea et a su proprie expensa faceva le guerra con Theodosio. Ille vinceva su inimicos e restaurava a ille su regno.

Tunc diceva Theodosio, "Benedicte es le hora in le qual io deveniva le genitor de mi filia junior. Io la amava minus que me altere filias, e illa me salvava in mi hora de grande necessitate, e me altere filias me abandonava. A causa de isto io va dar omni mi imperio a mi filia junior post que io mori." E ille faceva isto. Post le morte de su patre, su filia junior regnava e finiva su vita in pace.

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Theodosius rex, tres filias habens, de imperio expulsus est. Filia iunior pauperissima eum in magna necessitate succurrit.

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Theodosius in civitate imperii Romani regnavit, prudens valde et potens qui tres filias pulchras habebat, dixitque filiae seniori, "Quantam diligis me?" At illa, "Certe plus quam me ipsam." Ait ei pater, "Et te ad magnas divitias promovebo." Eam dedit regi opulento et potenti in uxorem.

Post haec venit ad secundam filiam et ait ei, "Quantum diligis me?" At illa, "Tantam quantum me ipsam." Theodosius tum eam cuidam duci tradidit in uxorem.

Et post haec venit ad tertiam filiam et ait ei, "Quantum me diligis?" At illa, "Tantum quantum vales, et non plus neque minus." Ait ei pater, "Cum ita sit, non tam opulenter te maritare potero sicut sorores tuas." Tradidit eam cuidam comiti in uxoem.

Accidit cito post haec quod imperator Theodosium de imperio expellebat unde bonum refugium habere non poterat. Scripsit litteras ad primam filiam suam, quae dixit quod patrem suum plus quam se ipsam dilexit, ut ei sucurreret in sua necessitate quod de imperio expulsus erat.

Filia, cum has litteras eius legisset, viro suo regi casum primo narrabat. Ait rex, "Bonum est ut sucurramus ei in hac sua magna necessitate. Colligam exercitum et adiuvabo eum."

Ait illa, "Illud non potest fieri sine magnis expensis. Sufficit quod ei concedatis, dum est extra imperium suum, quinque milites qui ei associentur." Et sic factum est. Filia patri rescripsit quod alium auxilium ab ea habere non posset.

Theodosius, cum hoc audivisset contristatus est valde et sibi dicebat, "Tota spes mea erat in seniore filia mea quod dixit quod plus me dilexit quam se ipsam, et propter hoc ad magnam dignitatem ipsam promovi."

Scripsit secundae filiae, quae dixit, "Tantum te diligo quantum me ipsam," ut succurret ei in tanta necessitate. At illa cum audivisset, viro suo nuntiabat et ipsi consilavit ut nihil aliud ei concederet nisi victum et vestitum, et litteras patri suo rescripsit istum dicentes.

Theodosius, cum hoc audivisset, contristatus est valde dicens, "Deceptus sum per duas filias. Iam probabo tertiam quae mihi dixit, 'Tantum te diligo quantum vales.' Litteras scripsit ei ut ei succurreret in tanta necessitate, dicens quomodo sorores suae ei respondebant.

Tertia filia cum vidisset inopiam patris sui viro suo dixit, "Domine mihi succurre in hac necessitate. Iam pater meus expulsus est ab terra sua." Ait ei vir eius, "Quid vis tu ut ei faciam?" At illa, "Exercitum colligas et ad vincendum inimicum suum." Ait comes, "Voluntatem tuam implebo."

Collegit magnum exercitum et sumptibus suis propriis cum Theodosio ivit ad bellum. Victoriam obtinuit et Theodosium in imperio suo posuit.

Tunc ait Theodosius, "Benedicta est hora in qua genui filiam meam iuniorem. Eam minus aliis filiabus dilexi et mihi in magna necessitate succurrit et aliae filiae meae defecerunt, propter quod totum imperium relinquam post decessum meum filiae meae juniori," et sic factum est. Post decessum patris filia iunior regnavit et in pace vitam finivit.

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King Theodosius, who had three daughters, was expelled from the empire. His youngest daughter, who was the poorest, rescues him in his need.

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Theodosius, a very prudent and powerful man who had three daughters, ruled over a city in the Roman empire. He asked his oldest daughter, "How much do you love me?" She replied, "Certainly more than I love myself." Her father then told her, "I will see to it that you get a rich husband." He gave her hand in marriage to a rich and powerful king.

After this he approached his second daughter and asked her, "How much do you love me?" And she replied, "As much as I love myself." Theodosius then gave her hand in marriage to a certain duke.

And after this he approached his third daughter and asked her, "How much do you love me?" And she said, "Just as much as you deserve and no more or no less." And her father replied, "This being the case, I won't be able to get you married to a man as rich as your sisters' husbands." He gave his hand in marriage to some count.

Shortly afterward, the Emperor expelled Theodosius from his kingdom to a place where he was completely unprotected. He wrote a letter to his first daughter, who said that she loved her father more than she did herself, so that she could help him out after his expulsion from the empire.

His daughter, after reading this letter, told her husband about her father's crisis. The king said, "We really ought to help him out in his hour of need."

She replied, "That can't be done without spending a lot of money. It's enough for you to give him five soldiers to help him out while he is away from his kingdom." This is exactly what he did. This daughter wrote him back saying that she could not provide him with any further help.

After he heard this, Theodosius became very sad and said, "All my hope was in my oldest daughter who said that she loved me more than she did herself, and because of this I found her a very rich husband."

He wrote to his second daughter who said, "I love you as much as I love myself" so that she could help him out in his hour of great need. But when she heard this, she told her husband about the problem and advised him to give her father nothing other than food and clothing. And she wrote her father back to tell him this.

Theodosius, when he heard this, became very sad and said, "I was fooled by two of my daughters. I will now try out my third daughter who said to me, 'I love you just as much as you deserve.'" He wrote her a letter asking him to rescue her in his hour of great need and told her how her sisters had answered him.

His third daughter, when she found out how helpless her father was, said to her husband, "My lord, please help me out in this hour of need. My father has been thrown into exile from his own land. Her husband replied, "What do you want me to do?" She then said, "Get an army together and take it to him yourself to defeat his enemy." The count then replied, "I will do what you want me to."

He gathered together a large army and at his own expense went to war with Theodosius. He won and returned Theodosius to his own kingdom.

Theodosius then said, "Blessed is the hour when I fathered my youngest daughter. I loved her less than my other daughters and she was the one who rescued me in my hour of need, and my other daughters refused to help, so I am going to give my kingdom to my youngest daughter," and that is what happened. After her father died, the youngest daughter ruled the kingdom and died in peace.