[836]. Leo Diaconus, p. 79.
[837]. Nicetas Chon., p. 718; cf. Ville-Hardouin, c. xxxii.
[838]. Phrantzes, p. 251. See below, pp. [241]-247, for the discussion regarding the precise route taken by the ships.
[839]. Acta Patriarchatus CP., ii. p. 467; Anna Comn., xv. p. 345.
[840]. Procopius, De Æd., i. c. xi. R.
[841]. Nicephorus Greg., vii. p. 275.
[842]. Patriarch Constantius, Ancient and Modern Consple., p. 15. With him agree Von Hammer, Paspates, Mordtmann, etc.
[843]. Gerlach, p. 454; Leunclavius, Pand. Hist. Turc. s. 200.
[844]. Pages 254, 255, Ἐδόθη φυλάττειν τὸν πύργον τὸν ἐν μέσω τοῦ ῥεύματος, τὸν φυλάσσοντα τὴν εἴσοδον τοῦ λιμένος, καὶ ἦν ἀντικρὺς τῆς πύλης τῆς βασιλικῆς.
[845]. Page 259. Dr. Paspates, in his work on the siege of the city (Πολιορκία καὶ Ἂλωσις τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, p. 141), represents the Hill of St. Theodore and the battery upon it as commanding the Bay of Cassim Pasha. This, however, is in harmony neither with the statements of Phrantzes, nor with local configuration. The requirements of the case are met by the supposition that the Hill of St. Theodore was the ridge to the north-east of Top Haneh, and that the Sultan’s battery stood nearer the Bosporus than the present Italian Hospital. Cf. Zorzo Dolfin, s. 44: “Acceso el Turcho da disdegno, da i montè orientali de Pera penso a profondar con machine e morteri, o trar quelle de la cathena. Mezzo adonque le bombarde a segno dal occidente” (i.e. aiming towards west), “se sforza con bombardieri profundar le naue.”