[579] Esquisse Topographique, pp. 12, 21.
[580] Book i. ch. 20.
[581] Belagerung und Eroberung Constantinopels im Jahre 1453.
[582] Πολιορκία.
[583] Constantine, the last Emperor of the Greeks.
[584] Les derniers Jours de Constantinople.
[585] Book iii. ch. x.
[586] 248–9.
[587] ἐκ τοῦ λιμένος τῆς χρύσης πύλης ἐκτός.
[588] E.g. in the ancient account of the regions of the city given in the Notitia utriusque Imperii the Aurea Porta is mentioned as in the 12th Regio—that is, near the Seven Towers. Upon this Pancirolus remarks ‘The Greeks call it [i.e. the Aurea Porta] Ὡραία.’ Ducas might have been told that the fleet went to the Ὡραία πόρτα and understood it to be the Aurea Porta or the Golden Gate.