[228] We know little of the Magnaura or Great Hall (magna aula) at this date, but its existence is certain; Chron. Paschal., an. 532. Codinus says it was built by Constantine (p. 19).
[229] Theophanes, Cont., v, 92, etc.
[230] Const. Porph., ii, 15. The author professes to draw his precepts from the ancients, but his “antiquity” sometimes does not extend backwards for more than half a century.
[231] Codin., pp. 14, 36; Zonaras, xiv, 6, etc. Zeuxippus is either a cognomen of Zeus or of the sun, or the name of a king of Megara; Chron. Paschal., an. 197, etc.; Jn. Lydus, De Magist., iii, 70.
[232] Sozomen, iii, 9.
[233] Anthology (Planudes), v.
[234] Cedrenus, i, p. 648; cf. Anthol. (Plan.), v, 61.
[235] The vast baths of the Empire, as is well known, were evolved into a kind of polytechnic institutes for study and recreation.
[236] Chron. Pasch., an. 450. Artificial lighting was first introduced by Alex. Severus; Hist. August.; Cod. Theod., XV, i, 52; Cod., XI, i, 1, etc.
[237] Cedrenus, i, p. 648.