[316] The favourite Byzantine appellation for Joshua the son of Nun.
[317] Ibid.; Nicetas Chon., De Signis, 4.
[318] Codin., p. 42.
[319] Ibid., p. 124.
[320] Ibid., pp. 42, 74; see Anthology (Plan.), iv, 22, for two epigrams which give some idea of the scope of these Xenodochia.
[321] Notitia, Reg. 10.
[322] Cedrenus, i, p. 610; Zonaras, xiv, 1; sufficiently corroborated by Cod., VIII, xii, 21, and not a mere assumption arising out of the similarity of νυμφαῖον to νύμφη, a bride, as argued by some commentators. Fountains were sacred to the Nymphs; see Ducange, CP. Christ, sb. voc.
[323] See the title De Aqueductu in both Codes and Godfrey’s commentary.
[324] This aqueduct seems to have been built originally by Hadrian, restored by Valens, who used for the purpose the walls of Chalcedon as a punishment for that town having taken the part of the usurper Procopius, and again restored by Theodosius I. Hence it is denoted by the names of each of these emperors at different times; Socrates, iv, 8; Zonaras, xiii, 16; and the Codes, loc. cit.
[325] Chrysoloras, loc. cit., etc.