Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[151]. Cod. Theod., Novella 12.

[152]. Paschal Chron., p. 530. Because of this subordination of Byzantium to Heraclea, the bishop of the latter city has still the right to preside at the consecration of the patriarch of Constantinople.

[153]. Valesian Anonymus, appended to the History of Ammianus Marcellinus. The senators of Rome were styled “Clarissimi.”

[154]. Nolitia, ad Regiones. On the delimitation of the Regions, see Gyllius, De Topographia Constantinopleos, l. ii. c. 2, 10, 16; l. iii. c. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9; l. iv. c. 1, 3, 7, 10, 11; and Mordtmann, Esquisse Topographique de Constantinople, pp. 2-10. The point on which these authorities differ most widely is regarding the situation of the Seventh Region, Gyllius making it occupy the valley of the Grand Bazaar, on the northern side of the city; while Mordtmann (pp. 6, 7) places it on the southern slope of the Second Hill, from the Forum of Constantine to the Sea of Marmora. My view (at present) on the subject is indicated in the Map of Byzantine Constantinople.

[155]. Ammianus Marcellinus, xxxii. 16.

[156]. Jornandes, xxviii.

[157]. Eunapius, quoted by Gyllius, De Top. CP., i. c. 5.

[158]. Zosimus, p. 101.

[159]. Sozomon, ii. c. 3.

[160]. Theophanes, p. 680.