Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[1129]. Ibid. p. 48.

[1130]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 560.

[1131]. Page 59.

[1132]. Ducas, p. 283.

[1133]. Ibid., ut supra.

[1134]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 438, 499, 504.

[1135]. Ducas, pp. 268, 269. The principal part of the engagement took place off the entrance to the Bosporus; for Leonard of Scio (p. 931) says that the Sultan viewed the contest from the hill of Pera; “ex Colle Perensi, fortunæ expectans eventum.”

[1136]. Act II.

[1137]. Vol. i. p. 679.

[1138]. Page 364.