[726]. S. 55.
[727]. Chroniques Græco-Romaines, pp. 96, 97. Dr. Mordtmann thinks that this point is referred to also in the Treaty of Michael Palæologus with the Venetians in 1265, when that emperor allowed the Venetians to occupy any point from the old Arsenal to Pegæ (ἀπὸ τῆς παλαιᾶς ἐξαρτύσις μέχρι καὶ τῶν Πηγῶν). The passage is ambiguous, for there was an old arsenal and a suburb Pegæ on the northern side of the Golden Horn, and the concession was outside the city.
[728]. Edition of C. Weseler, Paris, 1874. Cf. Gyllius, De Bosporo Thracio, ii. c. iv.
[729]. Paschal Chron., p. 720, 721.
[730]. Itinéraires Russes en Orient, pp. 88, 107, 108. Among its churches was the Church of St. Conon (Paschal Chron., p. 721), memorable in the Sedition of the Nika, as the church of the monks who rescued two of the seven rioters condemned to death from the hands of the clumsy executioner, and carried them across the Golden Horn in a boat to the Church of St. Laurentius for sanctuary (Malalas, p. 473).
[731]. Desimoni, Giornale Ligustico, anno iii., Genoa, 1876.
[732]. Lib. i. c. 42; cf. Mordtmann, p. 43.
[733]. Nicetas Chon., iii. p. 722; Ville-Hardouin, c. 36.
[734]. Ibid., p. 754; Chroniques Græco-Romaines, p. 96.
[735]. Ibid., ut supra; Ville-Hardouin, c. 54.