[309] Paspates, p. 40.
[310] See Curtis, Broken Bits of Byz., part 2.
[311] It may be mentioned that an Italian cantharus, or font, of the twelfth century, in the possession of Mr. Brindley, has the Latinised form of the same word in an inscription around its rim which reads
Artificum summus cui nullus in orbe secundus Hunc luterem clarum sollerer sculpsit aquae....
[312] Quoted by Paspates, Byzan. Mel. Note on p. 340.
[313] Lanciani, Pagan and Christ. Rome.
[314] Labarte, Pal. Imp.
[315] Pachymeres de Michael Palaeol., ed. Migne, p. 703. See also Du Cange, S. Sophia, § 22.
[316] Inscriptiones Antiquae totius orbis Romani.
[317] Grelot is vague in regard to it. Banduri understood him to mean that the inscription was on the inner water vessels. The Greek patriarch Constantios accepts it as having belonged to the Phiale. Buzantios wildly says baptistery.