[268] The eggs in honour of Castor and Pollux; Tertullian, De Spectaculis, 8:
Κάστορά θ’ ἱππόδαμον καὶ πὺξ ἀγαθὸν Πολυδεύκεα.
Iliad, iii.
The dolphins probably referred to Neptune, to whom the horse was sacred.
[269] See Lyons and Barcelona mosaics as referred to above.
[270] See the coins, etc., in Panvinius, which show that these cones with their stands were about fifteen to twenty feet high. Sometimes they rested on the ends of the Spina, at others on separate foundations three or four feet off it.
[271] Nicetas Chon., De Man. Comn., iii, 5; Codin., pp. 53, 192. They were brought to Venice by the Crusaders in 1204, and now stand before the cathedral of St. Mark; Buondelmonte, loc. cit. A much longer pedigree is given by some accounts (Byzantios, op. cit., i, p. 234), from Corinth to Rome by Mummius, and thence to CP. by Constantine. They even had a journey to Paris under Napoleon.
[272] Grosvenor, op. cit., p. 351. Some remains of it are still visible.
[273] Codin., p. 54.
[274] Nicetas Chon., loc. cit.
[275] Ibid., Codin., p. 54.