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

by Alexander Van Millingen

[1249]. Victor Tunnensis.

[1250]. Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 615.

[1251]. Theophanes, p. 388.

[1252]. Ibid., p. 447.

[1253]. Ibid., p. 784.

[1254]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 438.

[1255]. The Coronation of Leo the Great in 475, and that of Nicephorus Phocas in 963. See Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 410-417, 433-440.

[1256]. The soldiers spoke in Latin at the Coronation of Anastasius I. in the Hippodrome. See Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 431. Probably that was the rule.

[1257]. In older times the emperor was raised upon a shield at this point of the proceedings. E.g. Julian (Ammianus Marcell. xx. 4); Arcadius, Valens (Idatius Fasti Consulares); Theodosius II. (Paschal Chron., p. 568); Marcian (Paschal Chron., p. 590).

[1258]. Near the Forum of Arcadius, on the Seventh Hill.