The good Muselius, steddily believing
The heavenly λόγος to be truly God,
This Structure made an Off’ring to his Service.
Julian, the Prefect of the City, set up a gilded Statue of Anastasius before the College of the Poets, on which was inscribed a Couple of elegant Verses; yet no Mention is made in them, in what Part of the City this College was built. When a Report was made to Manuel the Emperor, that from antient Times, on the West Side of the Forum of Constantine, there had stood in the Nich of the Wall two female Statues made of Brass, one a Roman, the other an Hungarian Woman; and that the Statue of the Roman Woman projected, by Reason of its Craziness, beyond its Base, and the Statue of the Hungarian Woman stood fixed in its Station; he sent some Workmen to erect the Roman, and demolish the Hungarian Statue, thinking by this Means, that the Affairs of New-Rome would take a new Turn of Prosperity and Success. In the same Forum, among other elegant Statues of famous Men, was the Statue of Longinus, who had been Prefect of the City, on which was cut the following Inscription, made by Arabius.
Iberia, Persis, and the distant Nile,
The Solymæans, Indians, and Armenians,
With all th’ extended Regions of the West,
The Colchi, bordering near to Caucasus,
Which hides its tow’ring Head amongst the Clouds,
And all the flow’ry Plains of fair Arabia,