℟. _Long life to you._ CANT. _Long life to you, N N., Augustae of the Romans._ ℟. _Long life to you._ CANT. _Long life to you: prosperity to the sceptres._ ℟. _Long life to you._ CANT. _Long life to you, N., crowned of God._ ℟. _Long life to you._ CANT. _Long life to you, Lords, and to the Augustae, and to the Princes born in the purple._ ℟. _Long life to you._ The cantors proceed; _But the Creator and Lord of all things_, (the people repeat) _who hath crowned you with his own hand_, (the people repeat) _will multiply your years with the Augustae and the Princes born in the purple_, (the people repeat) _unto the perfect stabiliment of the Romans_. Both choirs then chant _Many be the years of the Emperors_, etc., and the Emperor descends, wearing the crown, into the Metatorion, and seated upon his throne, the nobles come and do homage, kissing his knees. After which the Praepositus says _At your service_, and they wish him _Many and prosperous years_. The Liturgy now proceeds, and the Emperor makes his Communion. The ceremonial at the coronation of an Empress[20] was much the same as that observed in the case of the Emperor. The coronation act, however, was performed not by the Patriarch but by the Emperor himself. If the Emperor was married after his accession, the whole ceremony of the crowning of his consort took place immediately after the wedding, and not publicly in the church of St Sophia, but as a private court function in the Augusteum. The Euchologia, as has been mentioned above, give the text of the prayers used, which Constantine only indicates. They are as follows[21]. As the Emperor stands with bowed head with the Patriarch in the Ambo a deacon says the Ectene or Litany. The Patriarch then says the prayer over the Chlamys, secretly: