[161]. Oratio, xviii. p. 222. Edition of Petavius.
[162]. VII. c. 1.
[163]. Cod. Theod., lib. viii. tit. xxii.
[164]. Anonymus, i. p. 22.
[165]. See Choisy, L’Art de Bâttir chez les Byzantins, pp. 7-13.
[166]. Socrates, vii. c. 1; Cod. Theod., “De Operibus Publicis,” lex. 51. The law refers to the towers of the new wall, and is addressed to Anthemius as Prætorian Prefect in 413: “Turres novi muri, qui ad munitionem splendidissimæ urbis extructus est, completo opere, præcipimus eorum usui deputari, per quorum terram idem murus studio ac provisione Tuæ Magnitudinis ex Nostræ Serenitatis arbitrio celebratur.”
[167]. Marcellinus Comes, “Plurimi urbis Augustæ muri recenti adhuc constructi, cum LVII. turribus, corruerunt.”
[168]. “Intra tres menses, Constantino Præfecto Prætorio opere dante, (muri) reædificati sunt.” Cf. Inscription on the Gate Yeni Mevlevi Haneh Kapoussi, p. 47.
[169]. Measuring from the bed of the Moat.
[170]. It stood on the Outer Wall between the fourth and fifth towers south of the Golden Gate (Paspates, p. 58).