“Difficilis quondam dominis parere serenis

Jussus, et extinctis palmam portare tyrannis

Omnia Theodosio cedunt,” etc.

[221]. See below, pp. [64], [65].

[222]. Malalas, p. 360, ascribes the decoration of the gate with gold to Theodosius II.

[223]. See above, p. [42].

[224]. Nicephorus, Patriarcha CP., p. 59; Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 500, 506.

[225]. Malalas, p. 360.

[226]. Codinus, p. 48.

[227]. Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 675.