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THEODORUS. 



From 1409 to 1412. 



Memoirs of this Reign^ though held in great EJIeem in Ahyjfmia^ defeC" 

 tive ; probably mutilated by the Ecclejiq/lia. 



DAVID was fucceeded by his eldefl: fon Theodorus. He 

 is called Son of the Lion, by the poet, in the Ethi- 

 opic encomium upon him, ftill extant in the liturgy. A mi- 

 racle is mentioned to have happened, (which would lead us 

 to fufpe(5l that he was a faint), during the celebration of his 

 feftival, by his mother, who is called MogefTa *. This lady 

 had contented herfelf with providing great quantity of flefh 

 for the feaft ; but, to make it more complete, the heavens 

 in a fhower fupplied it with ftore of fine fifh, ready roafted. 



He was buried in the church of Tedba Mariam in Am- 

 hara, after having reigned three years. There muft have 

 been fomething very brilliant that happened under this 

 prince, for though the reign is fo fliort, it is before all o- 

 thers the moll favourite epoch in Abyllinia. It is even con- 

 fidently believed, that he is to rife again, and to reign in 



Ab}^flinia 



* Probably Magwas, or Berhan Magwafs, the Glory of Grace ; a name often ufed by 

 queens ; for Mogeffa has no fignificaiign, that I know, in any of the laiiguages of Ethiopia, 



