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

by Alexander Van Millingen

[1268]. Theophanes, pp. 541, 608.

[1269]. See Labarte, Le Palais Impérial de Consple., pp. 185-195. It was a hall in the form of a basilica, divided in three aisles by two rows of six columns, with an apse at the eastern end, where the emperor’s throne stood on a platform. In it foreign princes and ambassadors were received, and there meetings of the great dignitaries of the State were held.

[1270]. Theophanes, p. 152.

[1271]. Symeon Metaphrastes, Life of Daniel Stylites, p. 1025. Patrol. Græca, Migne.

[1272]. Procopius, De Æd., i. c. xi.

[1273]. Theophanes, p. 351.

[1274]. Eustachius, Vita Eutychii Patriarchæ, as quoted by Du Cange, Constantinopolis Christiana, iv. p. 177.

[1275]. Paschal Chron., p. 690.

[1276]. Anonymus, iii. p. 56.

[1277]. Socrates, vi. c. vi.