[83] Cedren. ii. pp. 642-43. [84] Mansi, viii. col. 1010. [85] Banduri, iii. p. 45. The church was visited by Russian pilgrims in 1200, 1350, 1393.--_Itin. russes_, pp. 160, 120, 164. [86] Procop. _De aed._ i. p. 186. S. Peter 'near the palace' is mentioned in the list of abbots at the Synod of C.P. in 536. Mansi, viii. col. 930, col. 939. Another document of the same Synod, col. 1010, is signed by Peter, hegoumenos of SS. Peter and Paul and of the holy martyrs SS. Sergius and Bacchus. [87] Diehl, _Manuel d'art byzantin_, p. 31. Antoniadi has drawn my attention to the junction of a basilica and a hexagonal building in a baptistery at Tivoli. See Dehio und Bezold, _Atlas_, plate i. fig. 10. [88] Synax, Oct. 7. [89] Du Cange, iv. p. 135. [90] Cedren. i. p. 635; Procop. _Secret History_, c. 6; Procop. _De aed._ ii. p. 234; Theoph. p. 339; Theoph. Cont. p. 154. [91] Cedren. i. pp. 642-43. The Synaxaria (Sirmondi) speak of three churches of S. Sergius, in or near Constantinople; [Greek: en tais Sophiais], Oct. 7; [Greek: plêsion tês Aetiou kinsternês, Nov. 9 (near Monastery of Manuel, p. 258); [Greek: peran en Rhouphinianais], May 29 (near Kadikeui).] [92] Page 220. [93] Baronius, _Annales ecclesiastici_, tom. ix. p. 253, Luccae, 1741: 'quam basilicam eorum hic in domo nostra sub nomine praedictorum venerabilium constructam, illustrare et illuminare large dignemini.' [94] _Ibid._ p. 254. [95] _De aed._ i. p. 186. [96] _Ut supra_, [Greek: kai epeita kai temenos allo ek plagiou toutô parakeimenon] (i.e. SS. Sergius and Bacchus). [97] Baronius, x. p. 43. [98] Theoph. p. 349; Malalas, p. 485. [99] Le Grand Palais. Epigram 8 in the _Anthologia Graeca epigrammatum_ (vol. i. Stadt-Mueller) celebrates the erection by Justinian of SS. Peter and Paul, [Greek: eis ton naon tôn hagiôn apostolôn plêsion tou hagiou Sergiou eis ta Hormisdou]. [100] Baronius, x. p. 43 'ex domo Placidiana, ubi degebat, confugit ad ibi proxime junctam ecclesiam S. Petri'; cf. Vigilius' letter, _Ep._ vii. t. i. _Ep. Rom. pont._ [101] Theoph. p. 349; Malalas, p. 485. [102] _Notitia_. Two palaces bearing similar names stood in the First Region of the city, the _Palatium Placidianum_ and the _Domus Placidiae Augustae_. Vigilius refers to the palace in his circular letter, giving an account of his treatment at Constantinople. There also the legates of Pope Agatho were lodged in 680, on the occasion of the First Council in Trullo, and there likewise Pope Constantine in 710, when he came to the East at the command of Justinian II., took up his abode.--Anastasius Bibliothecarius, pp. 54, 65. [103] Epistola ccli. See Du Cange, _Const. Christ._ iv. p. 116. [104] 'Under the microscope of modern historical criticism, ... it is not surprising to find that the famous embassy of John the Grammarian to the court of Baghdad must be rejected as a fiction irreconcilable with fact.'--Prof. Bury in the _English Historical Review_, April 1909. But he was sent on other embassies.