[1149]. Ibid., iv. p. 118.
[1150]. Itinéraires Russes en Orient, p. 106. Immediately after speaking of the Church of St. Acacius, he proceeds to say, “Au pied de la montagne, se trouve l’eglise des saints Serge et Bacchus.” In the Latin version given in Riant’s Exuviæ CP., ii. pp. 228, 229, the passage is rendered, “Ex altera parte monticuli posita est Ecclesia SS. Sergii et Bacchi.”
[1151]. Cantacuzene, iv. pp. 218-234.
[1152]. Ibid., p. 220.
[1153]. But for the statement of Nicephorus Gregoras (xxvi. p. 87), one would suppose that the scene of this amphibious struggle was among the reefs and shoals off the shore between Kadikeui and Scutari. But Nicephorus says explicitly that the conflict took place off the Diplokionion (Beshiktash), ὅπη κίονες διπλοῖ σχῆμα τάφου τινὸς ἀνέχοντες ἵστανται. According to Gyllius, the sea off the shore between Beshiktash and Galata was in his day shallow and full of rocks. De Bosporo Thracio, ii. c. 8, “Alluitur mari vadoso, crebris petris supra aquam eminentibus inculcato.” The Turkish names of two points on this shore, Beshiktash, Cabatash, refer to these rocks.
[1154]. Lib. xxvi. pp. 85-92.
[1155]. Ibid., pp. 86, 90; cf. Cantacuzene, iv. p. 220.
[1156]. Lib. xiv. p. 711; cf. Theophanes Cont., p. 614.
[1157]. Lib. ix. p. 460.
[1158]. Lib. xxvi. p. 87.