Editing Arcadius (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Disco de Teodosio.jpg|alt=A young Arcadius is depicted on the right of the Missorium of Theodosius. C. 388 AD.|thumb|A young Arcadius is depicted on the right of the [[Missorium of Theodosius I|Missorium of Theodosius]]. C. 388 AD.<ref>Leader-Newby, 14, 33; Kiilerich, 278</ref>]]
Arcadius was born in 377 in [[Hispania]], the eldest son of [[Theodosius I]] and [[Aelia Flaccilla]], and brother of [[Honorius (emperor)|Honorius]]. On 19 January 383,{{sfn|Jones|Martindale|Morris|p=99}}{{sfn|Cameron|1993|p=92}} his father declared the five-year-old Arcadius an [[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]] and co-ruler for the eastern half of the Empire. Ten years later a corresponding declaration made Honorius the Augustus of the [[Western Roman emperor|western half]]. Arcadius passed his early years under the tutelage of the rhetorician [[Themistius]] and [[Arsenius the Great|Arsenius Zonaras]], a monk.{{sfn|Jones|Martindale|Morris|p=99}}