[428]. Critobolus, i. c. 27; Cantacuzene, i. p. 305.

[429]. See below, [Chap. XIX].

[430]. Tekfour Serai means Palace of the Sovereign, from a Persian word signifying Wearer of the Crown, Crowned Head. Leunclavius (Pandectes Historiæ Turcicæ, s. 56, Migne, vol. clix.) says that the Turks, in his day, styled the emperor, Tegguires. The derivation of Tekfour from the Greek τοῦ κυρίου is untenable.

[431]. See below, p. [173].

[432]. I. c. 27. Ἀπὸ τῆς Ξυλίνης πύλης ἀνιόντι μέχρι τῶν βασιλείων τοῦ Πορφυρογεννήτου, καὶ φθάνοντι μέχρι τῆς λεγομένης πύλης τοῦ Χαρισοῦ.

[433]. Cantacuzene, i. p. 305.

[434]. Nicephorus Greg., ix. p. 420.

[435]. See below, p. [127].

[436]. Cantacuzene, iii. p. 607.

[437]. Cantacuzene, iii. pp. 611, 612; Nicephorus Greg., xv. pp. 774-779.