[69] Near Antioch.
[70] A town of Lycia.
[71] ἄνθος, a bud, sprout or flower; hence brightness and bloom generally.
[72] θύρετρος is elsewhere a door. But “twin doors” has no meaning here. See plan.
[73] January; the consuls then entered on their year of office, and wore chitons of gold thread. See Du Cange, S. Sophia, § 22.
[74] This custom at Antioch is mentioned as early as the time of S. John Chrysostom in a sermon on the Baptism of Christ.
[75] ψηφῖδες—pebbles. The usual word for mosaic tesserae.
[76] In Macedonia. The mines are mentioned by Herodotus.
[77] The promontory on the south of Attica. The mines were at Laurium.
[78] πολυγλώσσοιο ὁμίλου, the choir.