[286] Const. Porph., loc. cit. At Rome such awnings were decorated to resemble the sky with stars, etc.
[287] Codin., pp. 20, 22; part previously by Severus; Zosimus, ii, 30.
[288] Codin., p. 39.
[289] Ibid., p. 37.
[290] Cedrenus, p. 564.
[291] Ibid., p. 616; Zonaras, xiv, 2.
[292] Resembling, if not the prototype of, the Venus dei Medici; see Lucian, Amores.
[293] See Pausanias, v, 12.
[294] Cedrenus, loc. cit.
[295] Theophanes, an. 6024.