[467]. Page 719; cf. Ibid., p. 500; Cinnamus, p. 274.

[468]. Ut supra, Περὶ τὸ γεώλοφον ἄφ᾽ οὗπερ ὁρατὰ μὲν τὰ ἐν Βλαχέρναις ἀνάκτορα, ὁπόσα νένευκε πρὸς ἑσπέραν. Περὶ δὲ γε τὴν τούτου ὑπόβασιν ὑπτιάζει τις αὔλειος, πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μὲν ἐς τὸ τεῖχος λήγουσα ὅπερ ἔρυμα τῶν ἀρχείων ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀνήγειρε Μανουὴλ, κατὰ δὲ βορρᾶν ἄνεμον τῇ θαλάσσῃ ἐγγίζουσα.

[469]. Anna Comn., vi. p. 275, et passim.

[470]. Nicetas Chon., p. 269; Benjamin of Toledo, p. 12.

[471]. As a rule, two to four courses of stone, alternating with six to nine courses of brick.

[472]. This is a piece of Turkish repair, in which the lintel of a postern is found.

[473]. Page 62.

[474]. See above, p. [83].

[475]. Pusculus, iv. 177.

[476]. Nicolo Barbaro, p. 794, “Questa Calegaria si xe apresso del palazzo de, l’imperador;” p. 784, “Li no ve iera barbacani.” Leonard of Scio, “Ad partem illam murorum simplicium, qua nec fossatis, nec antemurali tutebatur, Calegariam dictam.” Again he says, “Murus ad Caligariam erat perlatus, fortisque.”