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

by Alexander Van Millingen

[211]. Pusculus, iv. 151, “Aurea Porta datur ponto vicina sonanti.”

[212]. Cananus, p. 460.

[213]. Cantacuzene, iv. pp. 292, 293; Manuel Chrysolaras, p. 48.

[214]. Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Antiqui, p. 642. London, 1652.

[215]. See French translation of his work, Constantinople Ancienne et Moderne, 1798, vol. i. p. 28, where, quoting the legend, he says, “On y lit encore ces vers.”

[216]. Opera Varia, vol. i., Paris, 1696; Paneg. Maioriani, Carmen V., 354.

[217]. Constantinopolis Christiana, lib. i. p. 52.

[218]. The brilliant monograph of Dr. Strzygowski on the Golden Gate is found in the Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archæologischen Instituts, Band viii., 1893, Erstes Heft.

[219]. Zosimus, p. 234.

[220]. Cf. the inscription on the pedestal of the obelisk—